Mimesis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mimesis write by Erich Auerbach. This book was released on 1991. Mimesis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mimesis
Mimesis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mimesis write by Gunter Gebauer. This book was released on 1995. Mimesis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A fundamental historical account of the much-cited but little-studied concept of mimesis, and an essential starting point for all future discussions of this crucial critical concept."—Hayden White
Mimesis
Mimesis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mimesis write by Erich Auerbach. This book was released on 2013-10-06. Mimesis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 and Science
Mimesis and Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mimesis and Science write by Scott R. Garrels. This book was released on 2011-10-31. Mimesis and Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This exciting compendium brings together, for the first time, some of the foremost scholars of René Girard’s mimetic theory, with leading imitation researchers from the cognitive, developmental, and neuro sciences. These chapters explore some of the major discoveries and developments concerning the foundational, yet previously overlooked, role of imitation in human life, revealing the unique theoretical links that can now be made from the neural basis of social interaction to the structure and evolution of human culture and religion. Together, mimetic scholars and imitation researchers are on the cutting edge of some of the most important breakthroughs in understanding the distinctive human capacity for both incredible acts of empathy and compassion as well as mass antipathy and violence. As a result, this interdisciplinary volume promises to help shed light on some of the most pressing and complex questions of our contemporary world.
Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel
Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel write by Pierpaolo Antonello. This book was released on 2015-10-01. Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fifty years after its publication in English, René Girard’s Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (1965) has never ceased to fascinate, challenge, inspire, and sometimes irritate, literary scholars. It has become one of the great classics of literary criticism, and the notion of triangular desire is now part of the theoretical parlance among critics and students. It also represents the genetic starting point for what has become one of the most encompassing, challenging, and far-reaching theories conceived in the humanities in the last century: mimetic theory. This book provides a forum for new generations of scholars and critics to reassess, challenge, and expand the theoretical and hermeneutical reach of key issues brought forward by Girard’s book, including literary knowledge, realism and representation, imitation and the anxiety of influence, metaphysical desire, deviated transcendence, literature and religious experience, individualism and modernity, and death and resurrection. It also provides a more extensive and detailed historical understanding of the representation of desire, imitation, and rivalry within European and world literature, from Dante to Proust and from Dickens to Jonathan Littell.
