Erich Auerbach’s Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world’s greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth-century scholar-critics, makes the seemingly paradoxical claim that it is in the poetry of Dante, supreme among religious poets, and above all in the stanzas of his Divine Comedy, that the secular world of the modern novel ﬁrst took imaginative form. Auerbach’s study of Dante, a precursor and necessary complement to Mimesis, his magisterial overview of realism in Western literature, illuminates both the overall structure and the individual detail of Dante’s work, showing it to be an extraordinary synthesis of the sensuous and the conceptual, the particular and the universal, that redeﬁned notions of human character and fate and opened the way into modernity.CONTENTSI. Historical Introduction; The Idea of Man in LiteratureII. Dante's Early PoetryIII. The Subject of the "Comedy"IV. The Structure of the "Comedy"V. The PresentationVI. The Survival and Transformation of Dante's Vision of RealityNotesIndex

Dante: Poet of the Secular World (Midway Reprint)

Manheim, Ralph

Auerbach, Erich

Biographies & Memoirs

Univ of Chicago Pr

Erich Auerbachâs Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of worldâs greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth-century scholar-critics, makes the seemingly paradoxical claim that it is in the poetry of Dante, supreme among religious poets, and above all in the stanzas of his Divine Comedy, that the secular world of the modern novel ï¬rst took imaginative form. Auerbachâs study of Dante, a precursor and necessary complement to Mimesis, his magisterial overview of realism in Western literature, illuminates both the overall structure and the individual detail of Danteâs work, showing it to be an extraordinary synthesis of the sensuous and the conceptual, the particular and the universal, that redeï¬ned notions of human character and fate and opened the way into modernity.CONTENTSI. Historical Introduction; The Idea of Man in LiteratureII. Dante's Early PoetryIII. The Subject of the "Comedy"IV. The Structure of the "Comedy"V. The PresentationVI. The Survival and Transformation of Dante's Vision of RealityNotesIndex

Dante: Poet of the Secular World

Univ. Of Chicago Press

paperback no dust jacket. tight binding, creasing to covers and spine, spine is faded. some pages have creasing to the tops. some underling and notes in margins. covers show signs of shelfware and scuffing. chipping or tearing to edges.

Literature & Fiction

University of Chicago Press

An eye for music

Hart-Davis

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.

Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages

History & Criticism

Princeton University Press

The description for this book, Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages, will be forthcoming.

Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages (Bollingen Series, 26)

British & Irish

Important essays from one of the giants of literary criticism, including a dozen published here in English for the first time
Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his classic literary study Mimesis, is celebrated today as a founder of comparative literature, a forerunner of secular criticism, and a prophet of global literary studies. Yet the true depth of Auerbach's thinking and writing remains unplumbed. Time, History, and Literature presents a wide selection of Auerbach's essays, many of which are little known outside the German-speaking world. Of the twenty essays culled for this volume from the full length of his career, twelve have never appeared in English before, and one is being published for the first time.
Foregrounded in this major new collection are Auerbach's complex relationship to the Judaeo-Christian tradition, his philosophy of time and history, and his theory of human ethics and responsible action. Auerbach effectively charts out the difficult discovery, in the wake of Christianity, of the sensuous, the earthly, and the human and social worlds. A number of the essays reflect Auerbach's responses to an increasingly hostile National Socialist environment. These writings offer a challenging model of intellectual engagement, one that remains as compelling today as it was in Auerbach's own time.

Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach

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--and impassioned--response to the inhumanity he saw in the Third Reich. Ranging over works in Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and English, Auerbach used his remarkable skills in philology and comparative literature to refute any narrow form of nationalism or chauvinism, in his own day and ours.
 For many readers, both inside and outside the academy, Mimesis is among the finest works of literary criticism ever written. This Princeton Classics edition includes a substantial introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay in which Auerbach responds to his critics.

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition (Princeton Classics)

SAID, EDWARD W.

Pantheon Books

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Auerbach, Erich. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Auerbach, Erich

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Auerbach, Erich. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Dante: Poet of the Secular World (Midway Reprint)

Dante: Poet of the Secular World

Dante: Poet of the Secular World

An eye for music

Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages

Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages (Bollingen Series, 26)

Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition (Princeton Classics)

Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach

Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages