...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...

... 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. The...

...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...

...): 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...

... mislead, 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...

... intense engagements with three representative twentieth-century 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...

... intense engagements with three representative twentieth-century 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...

... intense engagements with three representative twentieth-century 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...

... the ultimate virtue of his book. 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...

...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...

....” Bernheimer 86 -96. Auerbach, Erich. “Philologie der Weltliteratur.” Muschg 39 -50. Bakhtin, M.M. “The Bildungsroman and Its Significance in the History of Realism (Toward a Historical Typology of the Novel.” Speech Genres and Other Late Essays . Ed. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Trans. Vern...

.../Engels, Erich Auerbach, as well as contemporary scholarship. Without ignoring the role of bookstores, Mani situates libraries—real (which COMPARATIVE LITERATURE / 100 is to say physical), imaginary, and digital—as the space in which books enter the public sphere. While there are many agents...

... commodities or . . . a global system of produc- tion either literally or by analogy” (24). Going back to Erich Auerbach, he stresses the crucial role of the temporal dimension in giving world literature a normative force. While he deplores the restriction of world literature to a strictly spatial...

... Question,” Cheah reflects on the meaning of “the world” and critiques recent attempts to equate literature’s worldliness to the “circulation in a global market of print commodities or . . . a global system of produc- tion either literally or by analogy” (24). Going back to Erich Auerbach, he stresses...

... and Erich Auerbach, whose work is better known to American readers, Weinrich was trained as a romance philologist. Lethe has much in com- mon with Auerbach’s Mimesis, though the differences far outweigh the similarities. Weinrich establishes the subject and method of his book clearly on the...

... SCIENCE OF FORGETTING. By Harald Weinrich. Translated by Steven Rendall. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. vi, 254 p. Steven Rendall’s excellent translation of Lethe is the first of Harald Weinrich’s books to appear in English. Like Leo Spitzer and Erich Auerbach, whose work is...

... Rendall’s excellent translation of Lethe is the first of Harald Weinrich’s books to appear in English. Like Leo Spitzer and Erich Auerbach, whose work is better known to American readers, Weinrich was trained as a romance philologist. Lethe has much in com- mon with Auerbach’s Mimesis, though the...