In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach writes, "My purpose is always to write history." Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, he explores major concerns raised in his Mimesis the historical and social contexts in which writings were received, and issues of aesthetics, semantics, stylistics, and sociology that anticipate the concerns of the new historicism.
In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach writes, "My purpose is always to write history." Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric fr...
Der Kulturhistoriker Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) zahlt zu den bedeutendsten Kulturwissenschaftlern und Romanisten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wie viele andere bedeutende Gelehrte emigrierte er fruh aus Deutschland, um der Verfolgung durch die Nationalsozialisten zu entgehen.
Bereits 1929 erschien sein Buch zu Dante, das trotz des etwas komplizierten Titels einen runden Gesamtuberblick uber das dichterische Schaffen des italienischen Nationaldichters gibt. Auerbach spurte in der Gottlichen Komodie, Dantes Hauptwerk, viele Realismen auf. Ruckbezuge auf die Welt des Irdischen bleiben auch im...
Der Kulturhistoriker Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) zahlt zu den bedeutendsten Kulturwissenschaftlern und Romanisten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wie viele an...
Scenes from the Drama of European Literature was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
In his foreword to this reprint of Erich Auerbach's major essays, Paolo Valesio pays tribute to the author with an old saying that he feels is still the best metaphor for the genesis of a literary critic: the critic is born of the marriage of Mercury and Philology. The German-born Auerbach was a scholar who...
Scenes from the Drama of European Literature was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-u...
