Scenes from the Drama of European Literature (Theory & History of Literature)

by Erich Auerbach

English, German (translation)

Genres: Criticism, Philosophy

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

German philologist Erich Auerbach 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 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 best known for Mimesis , a volume on literary criticism written in Turkey, first published in Berne, Switzerland in 1946, and subsequently widely translated.

Reviews

[Sam Bizarrus · Rating 3 out of 5]

Auerbach is, as usual, a highly dexterous reader across time, and his scholarly eye is trained towards the progression of ideas and figures across literary history. His writing is characteristically alluring and florid, but he writes with a kind of confidence that leave me never fully convinced.