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	Waggish: Erich Auerbach: Mimesis 1
		Auerbach lays out all of this schema very quickly in the first chapter, yet so much of it falls so easily from the juxtaposition of the two texts.
		What struck me was the combination of factors, how Auerbach associates the linear with the behavioral with the well-defined in the Iliad; and in the Old Testament, how he associates the psychological with the tentative and the inchoate, and the problematic.
		I suspect that the difference in their viewpoints originates in Auerbach's ability to deal in character and description (and its relation to the foreground/background of literature), while MacIntyre is dealing in intangible imperatives and universals (including the universal of the human and the life).
	www.waggish.org /2005/12/erich_auerbach_mimesis_1.html (608 words)

	Sample Chapter for Auerbach, E.; Trask, W., trans.: Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature.
		The refinement of Auerbach's own writing about Dante is truly exhilarating to read, not just because of his complex, paradox-filled insights, but as he nears the end of the chapter, because of their Nietzschean audacity, often venturing toward the unsayable and the inexpressible, beyond normal or for that matter even divinely set limits.
		Auerbach's choice of Dante for advancing the radically humanistic thesis carefully works through the great poet's Catholic ontology as a phase transcended by the Christian epic's realism, which is shown to be "ontogenetic," that is, "we are given to see, in the realm of timeless being, the history of man's inner life and unfolding" (202).
		Auerbach never loses sight of his original ideas about the separation and mingling of styles--how, for instance, classicism in France returned to the vogue for antique models and the high style, and late-eighteenth-century German romanticism overturned those norms by way of a hostile reaction to them in works of sentiment and passion.
	www.pup.princeton.edu /chapters/i50.html (6526 words)

	Auerbach,Erich Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		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,...
		Erich Auerbach es uno de los mas reputados investigadores de las culturas romanicas, singularmente conocido por sus brillantes trabajos sobre literatura francesa.
		A precursor and companion to Erich Auerbach's majestic "Mimesis," "Dante: Poet of the Secular World" is both a comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the greatest poets and a brilliantly provocative and stimulating essay in the history of ideas.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Auerbach,Erich (374 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Books Supplement \| The last book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The fourth chapter is on Erich Auerbach and was printed as the introduction to Auerbach's magistral work, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, when the classic was reprinted in 2003, 50 years after its translation to English in 1953.
		Furthermore, Auerbach's analytical approach and attention to the fabric of words were meant to uncover the relation to reality, thus the project is worldly concerned with the text and with the world in which the text is integrated.
		Auerbach could see the cultural homogeneity of Europe through Christianity, which demolished "the classical balance between high and low styles", and used hermeneutics and figurative language to bring together the Old and New Testaments and make them cohere.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/698/books698.htm (3011 words)

	Erich Auerbach
		Erich Auerbach was born in Berlin into a upper-middle class Jewish family.
		Although Auerbach analyzes writers' attitudes toward reality, he does not rush to give the reader his own definition of the concept "realism." Auerbach's idea is to approach the subject from different points of view, through writers and a selection of excerpts from wide variety of texts, mostly from France and Italy.
		According to Auerbach, Stendhal and Balzac broke the rigid separation of stylistic levels, dating from classical antiquity, in which the low, comic mode was reserved for the description of ordinary, everyday reality, and tragic, the problematic, the serious within everyday life was depicted in the high style.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /auerb.htm (1047 words)

	Mimesis
		Ultimately, however, Auerbach's version of "the philological circle" transcends Stilforschung [stylistic study] or, rather, juxtaposes and fuses Stilforschung with what Wellek calls "historical sociology," hence Spitzer's complaint, citing Aurelio Roncaglia, that his colleague was not a stylistician.
		Auerbach's mastery of stylistic analysis on the page, as well as of the broader social and historical context, enabled him to appeal to philologists, historians of literature, formalists, and Marxists--pretty much at the same time.
		One legacy of Auerbach is showing that humankind always has a choice, and that the result is three thousand years of culture--a culture which, thanks to the historicism that he so honored, now not only is but also is known.
	www.wordtrade.com /literature/mimesisR.htm (1519 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - Erich Auerbach - Product Details ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		auerbach was a lot more alert to the dynamics of cultural and language change than was his contemporary ernst robert curtius, the latter was held back (i suspect by his aristocratic background) from appreciating the fact that many tectonic shifts of culture start from the bottom-up -- this auerbach took great pains to demonstrate, e.g.
		Auerbachs work is on of the most influential works in comparative sciences of literature, it spans for Homer to Virginia Woolf, covering large variety of authors and styles.
		Auerbach's opening chapter 'Odysseus Scar' in which he compares Chapter 19 of the 'Odyssey' with the Akeda, Chapter 22.1 of Genesis is the foundation from which he goes on to read the whole history of Representation in Western Literature.
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	Introduction to Erich Auerbach, "Passio as Passion" ["Passio als Leidenschaft"] - Critical Essay Criticism - Find ...
		THE SUBJECT OF ERICH AUERBACH'S hitherto untranslated "Passio as Passion" concerns a theme that is never associated with him, the history of emotions.
		Auerbach starts genetically from the Greek word [beta]' [gamma] [[beta.sub.x], and moves in stages to its Stoic rendition as passio, to its early Christian and medieval transformation, which laid the groundwork for its modern meaning as first established by Racine.
		Written during the war, in German, and published in the United States while Auerbach was a Jewish exile in Istanbul, the essay responds to one by Eugen Lerch, a German Romanist relieved of his university position because of an affair with a Jewish woman.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2220/is_3_43/ai_85465365 (949 words)

	AUERBACH, Erich
		Erich Auerbach's Mimesis in Perspektive, in: Bernhard F. Scholz (Hrsg.): Mimesis.
		Jahrhundert als Paradigma bei Erich Auerbach und Werner Krauss, in: Hermann Hofer/Thilo Karger/Christa Riehn (Hrsg.): Werner Krauss.
		Beilage zu Heft 9, Berlin 2004, 5, 6-7, 8, 13, 13-15, 22-23; - Ders., Ein Exil-Brief Erich Auerbachs aus Istanbul an Freya Hobohm in Marburg, versehen mit einer Nachschrift von Marie Auerbach (1938) - Transkription und Kommentar.
	www.bautz.de /bbkl/a/auerbach_er.shtml (1520 words)

	Erich Auerbach (1892-1957)
		Auerbach's famous account of the genesis of the novel, Mimesis (1946), has been since its appearance among the most widely read scholarly works on literary history and criticism.
		René Wellek, Auerbach's colleague at Yale University, wrote: "The work is a strikingly successful combination of philology, stylistics, history of ideas and sociology, of meticulous learning and artistic taste, of historical imagination and awareness of our own age." (from A History of Modern Criticism 1970-1950, Volume 7, 1991) --http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/auerb.htm [Aug 2005]
		Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) was a German philologist, comparative scholar, historian, and critic of literature.
	www.jahsonic.com /ErichAuerbach.html (387 words)

	Erich Auerbach's Mimesis as a Meditation on the Shoah - Questia Online Library
		Auerbach is of course clearly aware of historical forces and of the evolution of mankind."(1) True, there is no anger in Auerbach.
		Auerbach is perhaps better known to students of Romance literatures than to Germanists since his scholarship concentrates largely on medieval Latin, French, and Italian works.
		Auerbach's seemingly idiosyncratic selection of texts, the self-consciously fragmentary nature of his presentation, refer in an extraordinarily oblique and sublimated fashion to the events that he was witnessing, events that, while reported in neutral and Allied newspapers, led at best to a tepid response from the non-Jewish public.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=5001043473&er=deny (786 words)

	Erich Auerbach
		[Auerbach was one of those towering European intellectuals, with encyclopedic knowledge of almost everything, who gave real meaning to the word scholarship.
		[Auerbach analyses this verse further, referring to the original Hebrew to buttress his commentary.] After this opening God gives his command, and the story itself begins: everyone knows it; it unrolls with no episodes in a few independent sentences whose syntactical connection is of the most rudimentary sort.
		Auerbach describes Abraham’s journey as] a silent progress through the indeterminate and the contingent, a holding of the breath, a process which has no present, which is inserted, like a blank duration, between what has passed [God’s call] and what lies ahead [the sacrifice.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /wyrick/debclass/Erich.htm (1859 words)

	Amazon.ca: Mimesis: Books: Erich Auerbach,W.R. Trask (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Auerbach shows us that humankind is not and has not been alike in its thoughts, aspirations and character but has distinctly changed and varied over time and place.
		To Auerbach, an early medieval religious writer, because of the way that Late Latin worked, could not think the way a classical author could.
		Auerbach quotes extensively from the books you probably always meant to read and uses them in a meaningful and entertaining way.
	www.amazon.ca /Mimesis-Erich-Auerbach/dp/0691060789 (1107 words)

	Erich Auerbach's Mimesis—'Tis Fifty Years Since: A Reassessment - Critical Essay Style - Find Articles
		Recent conferences at Stanford and at Groningen commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of Erich Auerbach's Mimesis (1946).
		Whatever the evolution of our profession in methodology or in the acquisition of knowledge, students and their mentors turn to Auerbach with much the same enthusiasm and sense of discovery or of recovery as in the past.
		Ultimately, however, Auerbach's version of "the philological circle" transcends Stilforschung [stylistic study] or, rather, juxtaposes and fuses Stilforschung with what Wellek calls "historical sociology," hence Spitzer's complaint ("Development" 446), citing Aurelio Roncaglia, that his colleague was not a stylistician.
	www.findarticles.com /m2342/3_33/62828824/p1/article.jhtml (701 words)

	LRB \| Terry Eagleton : Pork Chops and Pineapples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In this respect, Auerbach is a curious cross between Lukács and Bakhtin, blending the historicism of the former with the iconoclasm of the latter.
		Auerbach might have quoted Matthew 25 here, which has the Son of Man coming again to judge the living and the dead, depicted in some off-the-peg Old Testament imagery of angels and clouds of glory.
		For Auerbach's method, like that of his great philological colleague Leo Spitzer, is to fasten with fastidious sensitivity on some stray phrase or passage in order to unpack from it a wealth of historical insight.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v25/n20/eagl01_.html (3599 words)

	erich - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		Erich Auerbachs Mimesis as a Meditation on the Shoah by...helpful to examine a well-known work of literary scholarship, Erich Auerbachs Mimesis, The Representation of Reality in Western...Jewish Studies.
		All citations from Mimesis are drawn from Erich Auerbach, Mimesis, Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendlandischen...
		OMearas study of the German Jesuit Erich Przywara (1889-1972) compels one to conclude that he must be counted as a major influence on the development of Catholic...
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	NYRB: Erich Auerbach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1947 he moved to the United States, where he taught at Pennsylvania State and Yale Universities.
		Auerbach makes the seemingly paradoxical claim that it is in the poetry of Dante, supreme among religious poets, that the secular world of the modern novel first took imaginative form.
		An inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets and a brilliantly argued essay in the history of ideas.
	www.nybooks.com /nyrb/authors/12733 (66 words)

	Odyssey Criticism and Essays \| Erich Auerbach (essay date 1946)
		[Auerbach was a German-born American philologist and critic.
		He is best known for his Mimesis: Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der Abendländischen Literature (1946; Mimesis, The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 1953), a landmark study in which the critic explores the interpretation of reality through literary representation.
		In the following excerpt from that work, Auerbach compares the discourse, perspective, detail, and historical development of the Odyssey with that of several Old Testament stories.
	www.enotes.com /classical-medieval-criticism/odyssey/erich-auerbach-essay-date-1946 (155 words)

	Erich Auerbach - Mel Bay Profile
		Erich Auerbach (1911-1977) was born at Falkenau (now Sokolov) in the Sudetenland.
		In the 1930’s, Auerbach photographed the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, then under the leadership of the great Czech conductor Václav Talich, as well as visiting composers, conductors and instrumentalists from all over Europe including Ravel and Casals.
		Essentially a discreet cameraman informal in his approach and utterly without self-importance, he was liked by his subjects not least because he was himself a musician and could appreciate the music they were playing.
	www.melbay.com /authors.asp?author=370 (578 words)

	Auerbach, E.; Trask, W.R., trans.: Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature.
		Erich Auerbach, before his death in 1957, was Sterling Professor of Romance Languages at Yale University.
		Auerbach's critical method which is at once encyclopedic and microscopic, combining the disciplines of philology, literary criticism, and history."--The New York Times
		It's the only preface I know of that I wish were longer, serving as both an analysis of Auerbach and a ramework placing him in his scholarly and historical context.
	press.princeton.edu /titles/50.html (575 words)

	Mimesis - Erich Auerbach - Used Books
		Auerbach traces the representation of reality with well-developed readings of major writers in Western literature from antiquity to the 20th century.
		I can never pick up this book without learning from it and without marveling at the penetration with which Auerbach's handling of his subject, the different forms by which the great European writers have shaped their idea of reality, leads him to a new understanding of all postclassical literature." -- Alfred Kazin
		"Erich Auerbach begins his study by examining famous episodes in Homer and the Bible.
	www.biblio.com /books/61855498.html (508 words)

	OpinionJournal - Five Best
		The formidable challenge that Erich Auerbach set himself with "Mimesis" is made clear by its subtitle: "The Representation of Reality in Western Literature." But the German scholar succeeded brilliantly, producing a masterwork of 20th-century criticism that also happens to have pioneered a modern literary understanding of the Bible.
		Though only the first chapter is strictly focused on the Bible--a comparison of a passage from "The Odyssey" with one from Genesis--a biblical grounding is essential to Auerbach's discussions of Dante and other important writers of the medieval and early modern periods.
		His enduring contribution: making us see that the Bible is not somehow apart from literature, sequestered in a special preserve of theology and spirituality, but is rather a manifestation of a high literary art.
	www.opinionjournal.com /weekend/fivebest/?id=110008821 (610 words)

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