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Mimesis gives an account of the way in which everyday life in its seriousness has been represented by many Western writers, from ancient Greek and Roman writers such as Petronius and Tacitus, early Christian writers such as Augustine, Medieval writers such as Chretien de Troyes, Dante, and Boccaccio, Renaissance writers such as Montaigne, Rabelais, Shakespeare and Cervantes, seventeenth ...
Erich Auerbach (9 November 1892 – 13 October 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]
Mimesis (/ m ɪ ˈ m iː s ɪ s, m aɪ-/; [1] Ancient Greek: μίμησις, mīmēsis) is a term used in literary criticism and philosophy that carries a wide range of meanings, including imitatio, imitation, nonsensuous [clarification needed] similarity, receptivity, representation, mimicry, the act of expression, the act of resembling, and the presentation of the self.
Mimesis criticism is a method of interpreting texts in relation to their literary or cultural models. Mimesis, or imitation ( imitatio ), was a widely used rhetorical tool in antiquity up until the 18th century's romantic emphasis on originality.
Should Mimesis have a separate article, as it is, for example, in the Italian wiki? Given the importance of the essay, it sounds like a reasonable choice.--213.140.21.227 11:49, 12 June 2008 (UTC) I like the fact that Mimesis stays within Auerbach's page. What is annoying is that the first chapter is given its own seperate article.
Twentieth-century literary critic Erich Auerbach called Montaigne the first modern man. "Among all his contemporaries", writes Auerbach (Mimesis, Chapter 12), "he had the clearest conception of the problem of man's self-orientation; that is, the task of making oneself at home in existence without fixed points of support". [63]
One monument to the approach of this period is Erich Auerbach's book Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, a survey of techniques of realism in texts whose origins span several continents and three thousand years.
Annie Finch's "Coy Mistress" [5] suggests that poetry is a more fitting use of their time than lovemaking, while A.D. Hope's "His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell" turns down the offered seduction outright. [6] Many authors have borrowed the phrase "World enough and time" from the poem's opening line to use in their book titles.