Mimesis: dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Mimesis: dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur
- Jaar:
- 1977
- Onderwerp:
- 20th Century (1901-2000)
Philosophy
Literature
Crescendo - Taal:
- Duits
- Uitgever:
- Bern München Francke 1977
- Plaatsnummer:
- ORPH.LIT AUER a (Orpheus Instituut)
- Paginering:
- 525 pages
- Editie:
- 6th ed.
- Reeks:
- Sammlung Dalp 90
- Nota:
- Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (German: Mimesis: Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur) is a book of literary criticism by Erich Auerbach, and his most well known work. Written while Auerbach was teaching in Istanbul, Turkey, where he fled after being ousted from his professorship in Romance Philology at the University of Marburg by the Nazis in 1935, it was first published in 1946 by A. Francke Verlag.
Mimesis opens with a comparison between the way the world is represented in Homer’s Odyssey and the way it appears in the Bible. From these two seminal Western texts, Auerbach builds the foundation for a unified theory of representation that spans the entire history of Western literature, including even the Modernist novelists writing at the time Auerbach began his study. - Permalink:
- https://www.cageweb.be/catalog/orp01:000021133