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.
奥尔巴赫《摹仿论》第十三章讲到了莎士比亚戏剧,这是非常精彩的一章,除了继续在莎翁的戏文中阐述此前提出的“文体混用”原则外,他还进一步从“混用”中辨析出了一种近现代产生的创作美学:多余——它的同义词是文本中那些“没用的”、“无关紧要的”、“删掉也可以的”叙事...
评分《摹仿论》并不是一部典型的现实主义文学史类的书籍,正如它的副标题所言它是关于“西方文学中现实的再现”问题的描述。换言之,是讨论了“现实”是怎样进入文本的这一问题。 奥尔巴赫全书的线索围绕着“文体流变”这一关键词,他认为有两种文体传统。一种是“古典主义的文体分...
评分 评分本文翻译自Encyclopædia Universalis(法国综合大百科全书)的奥尔巴赫条目,撰写者为巴黎四大法语系主任Georges MOLINIÉ。这篇短文是为百科全书写的条目,尽管只有1000来词,但意思较难理解,所用的句式也偏复杂,将其转换成中文绝非易事。但作者比较精准地解释了奥尔巴...
怀旧之书。
评分理论书都读到流泪,他就是奥德赛
评分以传统阐释学方法将文学理论,文学批评和文学史融为一体,居然有人能同时掌握这么多语言,而且其中有许多是繁杂的古代语言,老派学者的学力吾辈所不能及也。主线是古典文学传统中对于sublime和base的区分,modernity打破了这种传统,将literary reality从farce中解放出来。从任何角度都是一本值得一读再读的好书!(以及六百多页英文真是读死我了……)
评分the historical consciousness of the literary representation
评分深入浅出的书最牛了
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