For the Czech photographer, see Erich Auerbach (photographer).
Erich Auerbach
Born
9 November 1892
Berlin, German Empire
Died
13 October 1957(1957-10-13) (aged 64)
Wallingford, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma mater
University of Greifswald
Occupation(s)
Literary critic, Philologist
Notable work
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Institutions
University of Marburg Istanbul University Pennsylvania State University Yale University
Doctoral students
Frederic Jameson
Erich Auerbach (November 9, 1892 – October 13, 1957) was a German philologist and comparative scholar and critic of literature. His best-known work is Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, a history of representation in Western literature from ancient to modern times frequently cited as a classic in the study of realism in literature.[1] Along with Leo Spitzer, Auerbach is widely recognized as one of the foundational figures of comparative literature.[2][3][4][5]
^Greenberg, Mark L. (1992). Literature and Technology. Lehigh UP. p. 280. ISBN 978-0-934223-20-1. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
^Apter, Emily (2003). "Global Translatio: The "Invention" of Comparative Literature, Istanbul, 1933". Critical Inquiry. 29 (2): 253–281. doi:10.1086/374027. ISSN 0093-1896. JSTOR 10.1086/374027. S2CID 161816827. As many have pointed out, the foundational figures of comparative literature—Leo Spitzer, Erich Auerbach—came as exiles and emigres from war-torn Europe with a shared suspicion of nationalism.
^Mufti, Aamir R. (1998-10-01). "Auerbach in Istanbul: Edward Said, Secular Criticism, and the Question of Minority Culture". Critical Inquiry. 25 (1): 104. doi:10.1086/448910. ISSN 0093-1896. S2CID 145333748. In a brief but remarkable essay on the ethos of comparative literary scholarship in the postwar U.S., Emily Apter has argued that the discipline Auerbach, Curtius, Leo Spitzer, and others founded (or reformulated) on their arrival in the U.S. was structured in fundamental ways around the experience of exile and displacement.
^Haen, Theo d' (2009). Literature for Europe?. Rodopi. p. 54. ISBN 978-90-420-2716-9. We should remember that comparative literature in the United States was also largely started by immigrants – the refugees who fled Nazi Germany ( principal among them Auerbach, Spitzer, Poggolio and Wellek).
^Hutchinson, Ben (2018). Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-19-880727-8. In the footsteps of pioneering figures such as Spitzer and Auerbach, the discipline of comparative literature began gathering pace in the 1950s largely as a transatlantic affair.
ErichAuerbach (November 9, 1892 – October 13, 1957) was a German philologist and comparative scholar and critic of literature. His best-known work is...
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literary critic. He was known for his emphasis on stylistics. Along with ErichAuerbach, Spitzer is widely recognized as one of the foundational figures of...
character, through change or no change, and through drama or no drama. ErichAuerbach has extended the discussion of history of aesthetics in his book titled...
while prior to that Berlin was in the shadow of Paris." Jewish scholar ErichAuerbach wrote in Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature...
reductione artium ad theologiam. He was also an influence on the critic ErichAuerbach, who cited this passage from Hugh of St Victor in his essay "Philology...
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continuous style. Of the two-style interpretations the Late Latin period of ErichAuerbach and others is one of the shortest: "In the first half of the 6th century...
philology Friedrich Schleiermacher, Wilhelm Dilthey, Hans-Georg Gadamer, ErichAuerbach, René Wellek Marxism (see Marxist literary criticism) – which emphasizes...
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pursue a doctoral degree at Yale University, where he studied under ErichAuerbach. Auerbach would prove to be a lasting influence on Jameson's thought. This...
stating that it is in the "distinguished lineage" of critics like ErichAuerbach, Georg Lukács, and Northrop Frye, each of whom wrote studies that managed...
to liberate the text from interpretive tyranny (a notion similar to ErichAuerbach's discussion of narrative tyranny in biblical parables). Each piece of...
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