Erich Auerbach, (born Nov. 9, 1892, Berlin, Ger.—died Oct. 13, 1957, Wallingford, Conn., U.S.), educator and scholar of Romance literatures and languages.
After gaining a doctorate in philology at the University of Greifswald, Germany, in 1921, Auerbach served as librarian for the Prussian State Library. From 1929 until his dismissal by the Nazi Party in 1936, he was ordinarius university professor of Romance philology at the University of Marburg. From 1936 to 1947 Auerbach taught at the Turkish State University in Istanbul, where he wrote his magisterial survey of the linguistic means of depicting reality in European literature, Mimesis: Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur (1946; Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature). He joined the faculty at Yale University in 1947, becoming Sterling professor of Romance philology in 1956. In 1949–50 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J.
Although Auerbach wrote a number of important scholarly studies, including Dante als Dichter der irdischen Welt (1929; Dante, Poet of the Secular World) and Literatursprache und Publikum in der lateinischen Spätantike und im Mittelalter (1958; Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages), his foremost work of literary criticism was Mimesis. This book not only offered philological and historical examinations of individual literary works, from the Hebrew Bible and Homer to Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust, but also established an influential critical method, offering a history of culture through the close analyses of literary styles.
A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis" still stands as a monumental achievement in 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.
《摹仿论》出版于1946,作者是埃里希·奥尔巴赫(Erich Auerbach)。原著是德文,1953年出版了英译本,普林斯顿大学2003年的版本,是纪念英译本发行50年的纪念版。该纪念版的前言是爱德华·萨义德写的,给予了《摹仿论》一书相当高的评价::“Books of criticism have usually...
評分 評分奥尔巴赫的思路被称为文化历史研究方法,但其实在他的这本书中,不仅对作者和作品产生的背景进行了历史文化的分析,还对作品的语言、风格和思想进行了历史文化的分析。 他将文体分为上等、中等和低俗,然后分别对应古典时代的描写上等人的悲剧、后来的中等人的浪漫剧,以及后来...
評分王炎老师花了整整一学期讲这本书,饱含深情地表示这本书塑造了他对文学研究的认识。虽然奥尔巴赫宏大叙事的语文学阐释方法已经逐渐被微缩历史的研究范式所湮没,这部鸿篇巨制却仍然不失为欧洲文学史的撷珍(想来有不少研究方法,如钱钟书先生锥指管窥的漫谈,如上世纪80年代盛...
評分Homer, Dante and Shakespeare.真是太神瞭,用一個motif統攝各種批評方法,簡直就是批評的百科全書…
评分開頭第一章大受震撼,之後很多都是不熟悉的文學作品,頗有些難懂。。。然而奧爾巴赫那種對文字,對語法語音,乃至於then這樣的轉摺處的細微體察,很有啓發。
评分大概隻有我完全不喜歡這本書吧……
评分大概隻有我完全不喜歡這本書吧……
评分懷舊之書。
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