{"id":938,"date":"2009-01-09T08:21:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T16:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/?p=938"},"modified":"2009-01-09T08:21:54","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T16:21:54","slug":"mimesis-the-representation-of-reality-in-western-civilization-erich-auerbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/2009\/01\/09\/mimesis-the-representation-of-reality-in-western-civilization-erich-auerbach\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimesis. The representation of reality in western civilization. Erich Auerbach."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mimesis. The representation of reality in western civilization. Erich Auerbach<\/a>. 1953. ISBN<\/a> 9780691113364.\u00a0\u00a0 Aurebach was a <\/a><\/p>\n

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Aurebach was a German philologist (he was a really well read multi-lingual academic) trapped in Turkey during WWII. He used the time to do this study of over 3000 years of Western ( English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Norwegian, American) writing ( from Homer though to Virginia Wolfe). James Mitchener in “Literary Reflections” considered Mimesis the seminal work on the subject. In this instance thorough seems to be a weak word to describe the extent of this work. It could not be considered a light read, nor is it a thrilling page turner, but I found that each of the twenty analyses was very interesting as the argument was built. A personal insight was his illustration that the teachings of early Christianity dramatically broke from the “heroic”, ruling classes focussed writing of the day to talk about the life of the common man in the language of the people. This first approach to reality contributed much to the rapid grass roots growth and take up of the Christian teachings. I recommend this book if you want to see how writing has grown over time and wish to understand the contributions of many of the giants in literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[78,279,249,79,281,278,280],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}