Dante: Poet Of The Secular World

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Synopsis
Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) is best known for his magisterial, and majestic, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (published in German in 1946; English version, 1953).

This volume of connected essays opens by contrasting the ancient Greek and Hebrew worldviews, as revealed in the Odyssey and the Old Testament. It ends with a close reading of a passage from Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. In the five hundred or so pages in between Auerbach offers searching analyses of short, illustrative extracts from Petronius, Gregory of Tours, Chretien de Troyes, Dante, Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Rabelais, Saint-Simon, Schiller, Stendhal, and others.

Building on the stylistic quirks, lacunae, and emphases in his carefully chosen authors, Auerbach reveals the underlying suppositions about what art should do and how people and events can be represented in prose at a specific moment in history. As a work of literary scholarship, Mimesis has been deeply and widely admired, occasionally criticized, and never equaled.

Copyright:
2006

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
222 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781590172193
Publisher:
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
Submitted By:
Daproim Africa
Proofread By:
Daproim Africa
Usage Restrictions:
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