Erich Auerbach

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Berlin, Germany

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Born in 1892, Erich Auerbach has served as professor of Romance philology at Marburg University (1929-35), taught at the Turkish State University in Istanbul (1936-47), and became professor of French and Romance philology at Yale University in 1950. He has published several books and many papers on Dante, Medieval Latin literature, methods of historical criticism, and the influence of Christian symbolism on literature. He is generally best known for Mimesis, a volume on literary criticism first published in Berne, Switzerland in 1946 and subsequently widely translated.

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avg rating: 4.38 | 25 reviews | 141 ratings | 7 distinct works

	Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback) by Erich Auerbach avg rating 4.37 — 214 ratings — published 1953 5 editions	my rating:
	Dante: Poet of the Secular World (New York Review Books Classics) by Erich Auerbach avg rating 4.62 — 27 ratings — published 2007 4 editions	my rating:
	Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages (Paperback) by Erich Auerbach avg rating 3.67 — 5 ratings — published 1993	my rating:
	Figura (Paperback) by Erich Auerbach avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2000	my rating:
	Scenes from the Drama of European Literature (Theory and History of Literature) by Erich Auerbach avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1984	my rating:
	Ecrits sur Dante (Paperback) by Erich Auerbach avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1999	my rating:
	L'histoire des rois francs (Paperback) by évêque de Tours saint Grégoire, Erich Auerbach avg rating 0.0 — 1 ratings — published 1990	my rating: