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Time, history, and literature : selected essays of Erich Auerbach / edited by James I. Porter ; translated by Jane O. Newman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Auerbach, Erich, 1892-1957.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Literary historians--Germany.
- Literary historians.
- Criticism--Germany.
- Criticism.
- Critics--Germany.
- Critics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (430 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- "Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his classic literary study Mimesis, is celebrated today as a founder of comparative literature, a forerunner of secular criticism, and a prophet of global literary studies. This book presents a selection of Auerbach's essays, many of which are little known outside the German-speaking world."
- Contents:
- Pt. I History and the Philosophy of History: Vico, Herder, and Hegel
- 1. Vico's Contribution to Literary Criticism (1958)
- 2. Vico and Herder (1932)
- 3. Giambattista Vico and the Idea of Philology (1936)
- 4. Vico and Aesthetic Historism (1948)
- 5. Vico and the National Spirit (1955)
- 6. Idea of the National Spirit as the Source of the Modern Humanities (ca.1955)
- pt. II Time and Temporality in Literature
- 7. Figura (1938)
- 8. Typological Symbolism in Medieval Literature (1952)
- 9. On the Anniversary Celebration of Dante (1921)
- 10. Dante and Vergil (1931)
- 11. Discovery of Dante by Romanticism (1929)
- 12. Romanticism and Realism (1933)
- 13. Marcel Proust and the Novel of Lost Time (1927)
- pt. III Passionate Subjects, from the Bible to Secular Modernity
- 14. Passio as Passion (1941)
- 15. Three Traits of Dante's Poetry (1948)
- 16. Montaigne the Writer (1932)
- 17. On Pascal's Political Theory (1941)
- 18. Racine and the Passions (1927)
- 19. On Rousseau's Place in History (1932)
- 20. Philology of World Literature (1952).
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691234526
- 0691234523
- OCLC:
- 1259590242
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