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28%OFFErich Auerbach - Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach - 9780691169071 - V9780691169071
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Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach

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Description for Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach Paperback. Editor(s): Porter, James I. Translator(s): Newman, Jane O. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
481g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691169071
SKU
V9780691169071
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About Erich Auerbach
James I. Porter is Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Jane O. Newman is Professor of Comparative Literature and European Languages and Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Reviews for Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach
Jane O. Newman, Co-Winner of the 2014 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature, Modern Language Association The 20 essays collected here
many of them translated from the German for the first time
bear out editor Porter's contention that Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his literary study Mimesis, was one of the 20th century's ... Read more

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