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...Figure 1. Letter from Erich Auerbach to Efraim Frisch, 8 February 1922. ...

...Jacob Hovind If Erich Auerbach's Mimesis is generally considered a landmark in twentieth-century literary criticism and an originary text for the modern practice of comparative literature, then this is despite the fact that its profound interpretive structures and hermeneutic consequences still...

... of critical reason, and also emphasizes Herder's turn to poetry as a molding influence on Erich Auerbach's conception of philology as effective preservation and a form of synthetic mythography. To delineate and defend Herder's position, the essay undertakes a revisionist theoretical reading of Herder's...

..., Erich Auerbach, and Northrop Frye, arguing that traditional definitions of epic narrative are instead subsets of a greater generic structure. The epic is, following Gregory Nagy and Franco Moretti, among others, a literary “super-genre” that encompasses as many other kinds of narrative as possible...

...DANIEL FRIED University of Oregon 2005 Apter, Emily. “Global Translatio: The `Invention' of Comparative Literature, Istanbul, 1933.” Critical Inquiry 29 ( 2003 ): 253 -81. Auerbach, Erich. “Epilegomena zu Mimesis.” Romanische Forschungen 65 ( 1953 ): 1 -18. ____. Literary...

...Christopher Bush © 2013 by University of Oregon 2013 Works Cited Auerbach Erich . “Philology and Weltliteratur.” Trans. Maire Said Edward . The Centennial Review 13 . 1 ( 1969 [1952] ): 1 – 17 . Print . Bernabé Jean Chamoiseau Patrick Confiant...

...KA-FAI YAU University of Oregon 2005 Auerbach, Erich. Literary Language and its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages . Trans. Ralph Manheim. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993 . ____. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature . Trans...

... Anderson’s request to Erich Auerbach in relation to the English translation of Mimesis . “I am not sure you realize,” says Anderson to Auerbach in a letter dated August 6, 1952, “that even relatively well-educated Americans have really a very elementary reading knowledge of one or at best two modern...

... scholars of figurality: the biblicist Daniel Boyarin, the philologist and literary critic Erich Auerbach, and the theologian Hans Frei. But it would be more accurate to say that Dawson does not so much engage as take on COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/358 these critics. He confronts their arguments...

... scholars of figurality: the biblicist Daniel Boyarin, the philologist and literary critic Erich Auerbach, and the theologian Hans Frei. But it would be more accurate to say that Dawson does not so much engage as take on COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/358 these critics. He confronts their arguments...

... scholars of figurality: the biblicist Daniel Boyarin, the philologist and literary critic Erich Auerbach, and the theologian Hans Frei. But it would be more accurate to say that Dawson does not so much engage as take on COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/358 these critics. He confronts their arguments...

... of the discipline in France. A century later in the United States, the arrival of European scholars like René Wellek, Leo Spitzer, and Erich Auerbach gave the American “school” of the discipline its shaping influence, rooting it in German philology while retaining a focus on English, French, and German traditions...

..., but the breadth and character of his work, with its evident love of letters, places him within the traditions of Romance Philology as prac- ticed by two of his intellectual mentors, Erich Auerbach and Leo Spitzer, about whom he has written eloquently—but never uncritically—on more than one oc- casion (see...

.... Calhoon’s most insistent critical interlocutors are Erich Auerbach and Jean Starobinski, but he also engages Roberto Calasso, Michael Fried, and Giorgio Agamben, and his study is deferential to their authority to a degree, but always enchantingly so. The motto “Et in Arcadia ego,” the visual...

...): 283-91. 33. “Luís de Camões.” European Writers: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Ed. W.T.H. Jackson. Vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1983. 747-67. 34. “Two Vicentine Heroines.” Quaderni Portoghesi 9-10 (1983): 33-53. 35. “Insight and Method: Erich Auerbach.” Literary Theory...

... of a tradition of irrationalist thought, read into modernist experimentation the decline of the ruling bourgeoisie. Erich Auerbach ( 1892–1957 ), a German Jewish philologist, offered a model interpretation of the relationship between modernist experimentation in prose and “the pace of civilization,” albeit...

...ELIZABETH ANDREWS McARTHUR University of Oregon 2004 Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature . Trans. Willard R. Trask. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953 . Banfield, Ann. “Tragic Time: The Problem of the Future in Cambridge Philosophy...

... mentioned Spitzer, let’s move on to Erich Auerbach, who would build his famous epilogue at the end of Mimesis —composed in Istanbul between 1942 and 1945—on the formal device of excuse-making: “It is quite possible that the book owes its existence to just this lack of a rich and specialized library...