Mimesis The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition

Name: Mimesis The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition
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ISBN: 9780691012698

ISBN-10: 0691012695

ISBN-13: 9780691012698

Edition: 1953 (Revised)

Authors: Erich Auerbach, Willard R. Trask

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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1953
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/21/1968
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



""To describe Mimesis as a classic is to offer something of a dismissive understatement, which conveys nothing of the excitement of this Book, as fresh and direct, as untechnical, as when it first appeared


To say that it constitutes virtually a history of Western literature is to omit adding that it writes that history in a way that is still new and stimulating, with nothing of the manual about it, a synchronic kind of history with which we are only just now catching up


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