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Book SynopsisThese fourteen essays draw on new biographical information and recent developments in literary theory and cultural studies to reinterpret Auerbach's work, both in the social and historical contexts of its author's life.
Trade Review"The lasting impact of this volume will be found less in historicizing Auerbach as a literary figure than in revitalizing his enterprise for literary studies—and for medieval studies in particular. . . . What he provides us is a methodology that belies the common criticism of medieval philology that its efforts are irrelevant to contemporary literary practice." --
EnvoiTable of ContentsContributors; Introduction Seth Lerer; Part I. The Everday and History: 1. 'Pathos of the earthly progress': Erich Auerbach's everydays Hans Urich Gumbrecht; 2. Auerbach's 'hidden' (?) theory of history Claus Uhlig; 3. Auerbach and literary history Luiz Costa-Lima; Part II. Philology, Language and History: 4. Philology in Auerbach's drama of (literary) history Stephen G. Nichols; 5. Philology and collaboration: the case of Adam and Eve Seth Lerer; 6. Medieval vernaculars and the myth of monoglossia: a conspiracy of linguistics and philology Suzanne Fleischman; Part III. Figural History, Historical Figures: 7. Figura, allegory, and the question of history Jesse M. Gellrich; 8. Auerbach's literary history: figural causation and modernist historicism Hayden White; Part IV. Turning Points in Literary History: 9. Literary realism in the later ancient period Brian Stock; 10. The ideology of periodization: Mimesis 10 and the late medieval aesthetic Kevin Brownlee; Part V. Legacies: 11. Auerbach's performance and the American acade my, or how New Haven stole the idea of mimesis Carl Landauer; 12. On the reception of mimesis Herbert Lindenberger; 13. Erich Auerbach and the 'inner dream' of transcendence Geoffrey Green; 14. Literature as language: Auerbach, Spitzer, Jakobson Thomas R. Hart; Notes; Index.
