Erich Auerbach, critic of the earthly world

Boundary 2

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 11-34

  Said, Edward W ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*

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EID: 33750071652     PISSN: 01903659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/01903659-31-2-11     Document Type: Review

References (4)

1. Geoffrey Greene, Literary Criticism and the Structures of History, Erich Auerbach and Leo Spitzer (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982), 20-21.
2. See Erich Auerbach, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition, trans. Willard R. Trask, with a new introduction by Edward W. Said (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), 559-574. All future references to this edition are placed within parentheses in the body of the text.
3. Nelson, Jr., Lowry. "Erich Auerbach: Memoir of a Scholar," Yale Review, v. 69 n. 2 (Winter 1980), 318.
4. I refer here to Auerbach's long and rather technical essay "Figura," published in 1944 and since collected in Auerbach, Scenes from the Drama of European Literature: Six Essays (Meridian Books, Inc., 1959; rept. Peter Smith, 1973).