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...
评分被引用的奥尔巴赫 ——《摹仿论》的比较文学意义 郝岚 (本文已发表于《外国文学研究》2015年第3期,转载请引用) 论文摘要:奥尔巴赫的《摹仿论》被现代文学批评广泛膜拜和征引...
评分奥尔巴赫《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...
评分大概只有我完全不喜欢这本书吧……
评分作者于二战期间在伊斯坦布尔写成,克服了参考书严重不足(所以没有脚注)和交通断绝的困难,雄心勃勃地讨论了三千年以来欧洲文学从荷马史诗(原拟从柏拉图开始)到现代派(Woolf, Proust, Joyce, Mann)中的现实主义问题。
评分本来我是不敢读这种文艺理论的书的,当时是出于对但丁《神曲》的一时兴趣而误打误撞上的,内容并不艰涩反倒十分有趣,对于读西方文学,特别是我理解但丁很有帮助。
评分英文翻译就好多了
评分英文翻译就好多了
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