... and Mikhail Bakhtin’s approaches to literature beyond language. Turning this legacy on its head, this essay focuses, rather, on language in literature. In a short-circuiting way, Roman Jakobson’s linguistics and poetics and Erich Auerbach’s nonnational-based philology can be seen as surprisingly close to one...

..., through a discussion of the writings of Derrida and Auerbach, among others, that the connotations of forgiveness extend considerably beyond a strictly religious dimension, going so far as to bear on contemporary theoretical questions about translation and the secularization of representation. Brown...

...Ellen Rooney Copyright © 1996 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1996 Works Cited Alcoff Linda . “ The Problem of Speaking for Others .” Cultural Critique 20 (Winter 1991–92): 5 – 32 Auerbach Nina . “ Engorging Patriarchy...

... have something to do with the realization that long before the current predilection for “distant reading,” fine practitioners of philology such as Erich Auerbach were already raising doubts about how philology should be deployed in an era in which world literature was finally “arriving” on the scene...

... of “culture.” © 2011 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2011 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Works Cited Auerbach Erich . Mimesis: The Representation...

... York : Links , 1974 . Auerbach Nina . Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1978 . Beauman Sally . “ Women without men, except to kill for fun and survival .” New York Times 10 Oct. 1971 , sec. 7: 5 . Beauvoir Simone de...

... with respect to historicity and temporality, Kamelia Spassova evokes Friedrich Nietzsche, Erich Auerbach, and archstructuralist Roman Jakobson in order to inscribe literary theory in the longue durée of philology. She thus destabilizes the opposition, in Tihanov’s book, between literary theory and the return...

... known since Horace. The Homeric “pretense of objectivity and impersonality” is also a claim with long standing ( Rosen 481 ). For a renowned discussion of retardation, see Auerbach. For the spectacular absurdity of Homer’s anatomy (in spite of the nonsense propagated on the Internet), see Kirk 342–43...

... (University of California Press, 1999) and of articles on feminist theory, the history of sexuality, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. She is currently completing a book on female homoeroticism and the Victorian family. Auerbach, Jeffrey. “What They Read: Mid-Nineteenth Century English...

... See Erich Auerbach’s discussion of the role of apostrophe in Dante’s lyrics, and especially his reading of the concluding command in “Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare”: “Sospira!” (Sigh!) (29–30, 36–38). Whereas Auerbach hears an “abrupt” “shift from sterile old age to youth” in this imperative (35...

...: a Political History of the Novel . New York : Oxford UP , 1987 . Ashton T. S. “ The Bill of Exchange and Private Banks in Lancashire, 1790-1830 .” Papers in English Monetary History . Ed. Ashton T. S. and Sayers R. S. . London : Clarendon , 1953 . 37 - 108 . Auerbach Nina...

... Stone 7 Sept . 1995 : 39+. Auerbach Nina . Our Vampires, Ourselves . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1995 . The Ballad of Little Jo . Dir. Greenwald Maggie with Amis Suzy . Fine Line Features, 1993 . Bérubé Michael . “ Bite Size Theory .” Social Text 36...

... Acts” at New York’s Jack Tilton Gallery, a gambit that “fail[ed] to garner the serious attention of the art press” (Auerbach). The who cares shrug that accompanied Heilman-C’s exhibit is as much a sign...

...- tions were the stuff of modernist texts, and the theory of exile is what in many ways characterized modernism in classic works on the topic from Auerbach to Said. The theme of exile in the early twentieth century empha- sized...

.... It is possible to locate in literary-interpretive practice, including that of the New Critics and their philological predecessors like Erich Auerbach and Leo Spitzer, a generalized ethics of the encounter with the other in language...

... of its lack of documentation and consigned to the tender mercies of archeology and the “antiquities,” as a source of meaning for “reality.” As Auerbach and others argue, modernism is anything...

... and well coordinated marxist -feminst critique of marxist theory. see Benhabib and Cornell. 149 10 The concept of "'mimesis" has had an interesting and discontinuous history. from Aristotle to Auerbach. from the marxist theorists to contemporary theorists of postcoloniality. Depending upon how it has been...