Scenes from the Drama of European Literature

by Erich Auerbach

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Scenes from the Drama of European Literature was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In his foreword to this reprint of Erich Auerbach's major essays, Paolo Valesio pays tribute to the author with an old saying that he feels is still the best metaphor for the genesis of a literary critic: the critic is born of the show more marriage of Mercury and Philology. show less

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At the time of his death Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) was Sterling Professor of Romance Philology at Yale University

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Literature Studies and Criticism, Nonfiction, Fiction and Literature
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809.894Literature & rhetoricLiterature, rhetoric & criticismHistory, description, critical appraisal of more than two literaturesBy or for groups of persons
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PN511 .A8Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)Literary historyCollections
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