Auerbach's Renaissance
Rebirths of an Aesthetic from Shakespeare to Ferrante
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2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-54549-5 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-54549-5 (ISBN)
Auerbach's reading of Renaissance writing presents a challenge to the pessimism of today, and in Mimesis he reveals democratic possibility through such writers as Dante, Rabelais, Montaigne, and Shakespeare. Christopher Warley rediscovers the powerful beauty of this major critical work and shows its vitality for contemporary literary criticism.
Erich Auerbach's Mimesis is among the most admired works of literary criticism of the last hundred years. Amidst the horrors of the Second World War, Auerbach's prodigious learning managed – almost miraculously – to give voice to a delicate, subtle optimism. Focusing on Auerbach's account of Renaissance literature, Christopher Warley rediscovers the powerful beauty of Mimesis and shows its vitality for contemporary literary criticism. Analysing Auerbach's account of Renaissance love lyric alongside Woolf's To the Lighthouse, fifteenth-century Burgundian writing alongside Ferrante, and Shakespeare alongside Michelet, Ruskin and Burckhardt, Auerbach's Renaissance traces an aesthetic that celebrates the diversity of human life. Simultaneously it locates in Auerbach's reading of Renaissance writing a challenge to the pessimism of today, the sense that we live in an endless present where the future looms only as a threat. Auerbach's scholarship, the art he learns from Dante, Rabelais, Montaigne, and Shakespeare, is a Renaissance offering democratic possibility.
Erich Auerbach's Mimesis is among the most admired works of literary criticism of the last hundred years. Amidst the horrors of the Second World War, Auerbach's prodigious learning managed – almost miraculously – to give voice to a delicate, subtle optimism. Focusing on Auerbach's account of Renaissance literature, Christopher Warley rediscovers the powerful beauty of Mimesis and shows its vitality for contemporary literary criticism. Analysing Auerbach's account of Renaissance love lyric alongside Woolf's To the Lighthouse, fifteenth-century Burgundian writing alongside Ferrante, and Shakespeare alongside Michelet, Ruskin and Burckhardt, Auerbach's Renaissance traces an aesthetic that celebrates the diversity of human life. Simultaneously it locates in Auerbach's reading of Renaissance writing a challenge to the pessimism of today, the sense that we live in an endless present where the future looms only as a threat. Auerbach's scholarship, the art he learns from Dante, Rabelais, Montaigne, and Shakespeare, is a Renaissance offering democratic possibility.
Christopher Warley teaches Renaissance literature and Critical Theory at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Reading Class Through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton (2014) and Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England (2005), both published by Cambridge University Press.
Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations of frequently cited texts; 1. The sentimental tourist; 2. The coy critic; 3. At the foot of the mountain of purgatory; 4. The mixed style; 5. The friendly word; 6. Standard operating procedure; 7. Two stories of brave mothers; Afterword to his coy mistress; List of figures.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.04.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 590 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-54549-3 / 1009545493 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-54549-5 / 9781009545495 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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