Mimesis : the representation of reality in Western literature

Mimesis

the representation of reality in Western literature

ByErich Auerbach,Willard R. Trask(Translator)
1942 • 616 pages

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163 books

Literary Cannon

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Michael
Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Montaigne
Dante
Mimesis : the representation of reality in Western literature
Prometheus Bound
Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World
The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups

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10 books

Dante

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Nueve ensayos dantescos
Nove Cartas sobre A Divina Comédia: Navegações pela Obra Clássica de Dante
Curiosity
In the Hand of Dante
Dante

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150 books

Non Fiction

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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Against Empathy
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Year of the Monkey
Travels in Hyperreality
Oscar Wilde. Essays
What Are People For?: Essays

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34 books

Philosophy

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Meditations
3: Une aspiration au dehors
Basic Writings
Man and His Symbols
All About Love
The Myth of Sisyphus
Mencius

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125 books

Critical Theory

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The Culture Industry
Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things
Media Theory in Japan
Orientalism
Otaku
Critique of Cynical Reason
The End of Japanese Cinema: Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies

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148 books

History

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Erotic Grotesque Nonsense
Interpreting Our Heritage
Orientalism
Shutting out the sun
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War

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232 books

Formally Studied

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Billy Budd
Notes From Underground
The Awakening
The Shawl
The Lottery
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas

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28 books

German

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Hikikomori
I Called Him Necktie
The Culture Industry
Critique of Cynical Reason
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Phänomenologie des Geistes
The Concept of the Political

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78 books

Literary Criticism

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Offensive Films
Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture
Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation
Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations
Orientalism

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87 books

On Hold

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The Culture Industry
Songs of a Dead Dreamer
Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation
The Old Man and the Sea
The Stranger
The Republic

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39 books

Nonfic Lit Study

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Mimesis : the representation of reality in Western literature
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The Second Common Reader
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Don Quixote: The Quest for Modern Fiction