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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--
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- Author
- Trask, Willard Ropes; Auerbach, Erich; Said, Edward W
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691060781
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (164 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Mimesis : the representation of reality in Western literature (1953)
- Mimesis : Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur (2015)
- Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition (Princeton Classics Book 78) (2003)
- Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition (2003)
- Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition (Princeton Classics (78)) (2013)
- Mimesis · The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946)
- Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Princeton Paperbacks; No. 124) (1953)
- Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Princeton Paperbacks; No. 124) (1969)
- Mimesis: La Representacion De La Realidad En La Literatura Occidental (Seccion de Lengua y Estudios Literarios) (1996)
- Literarische Dimensionen der Menschenwürde : Exemplarische Analysen zur Bedeutung des Menschenwürdebegriffs in der deutschsprachigen Literatur seit der Frühaufk (2017)
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