Mimesis : The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition / Edward W. Said, Erich Auerbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auerbach, Erich, Author.

Said, Edward W., Author.

Contributor:

Trask, Willard R. (Willard Ropes), 1900-1980.

Series:

Princeton classics.

Princeton classics

Standardized Title:

Mimesis. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Mimesis in literature.

Reality in literature.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (614 p.)

Edition:

First Princeton classics edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay, never before translated into English, in which Auerbach responds to his critics. A German Jew, Auerbach was forced out of his professorship at the University of Marburg in 1935. He left for Turkey, where he taught at the state university in Istanbul. There he wrote Mimesis, publishing it in German after the end of the war. Displaced as he was, Auerbach produced a work of great erudition that contains no footnotes, basing his arguments instead on searching, illuminating readings of key passages from his primary texts. His aim was to show how from antiquity to the twentieth century literature progressed toward ever more naturalistic and democratic forms of representation. This essentially optimistic view of European history now appears as a defensive--and impassioned--response to the inhumanity he saw in the Third Reich. Ranging over works in Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and English, Auerbach used his remarkable skills in philology and comparative literature to refute any narrow form of nationalism or chauvinism, in his own day and ours. For many readers, both inside and outside the academy, Mimesis is among the finest works of literary criticism ever written. This Princeton Classics edition includes a substantial introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay in which Auerbach responds to his critics.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION TO THE FIFTIETH-ANNIVERSARY EDITION

MIMESIS

1. ODYSSEUS' SCAR

2. FORTUNATA

3. THE ARREST OF PETER VALVOMERES

4. SICHARIUS AND CHRAMNESINDUS

5. ROLAND AGAINST GANELON

6. THE KNIGHT SETS FORTH

7. ADAM AND EVE

8. FARINATA AND CAVALCANTE

9. FRATE ALBERTO

10. MADAME DU CHASTEL

11. THE WORLD IN PANTAGRUEL'S MOUTH

12. L'HUMAINE CONDITION

13. THE WEARY PRINCE

14. THE ENCHANTED DULCINEA

15. THE FAUX DEVOT

16. THE INTERRUPTED SUPPER

17. MILLER THE MUSICIAN

18. IN THE HOTEL DE LA MOLE

19. GERMINIE LACERTE UX

20. THE BROWN STOCKING

EPILOGUE

APPENDIX: "EPILEGOMENA TO MIMESIS"

INDEX

Notes:

"Fiftieth-anniversary edition."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

9781400843411

1400843413

9780691060781

0691060789

9781400847952

1400847958

OCLC:

857711584