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1 online resource. |
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Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture series
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Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Erich Auerbach's seminal Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature was published more than sixty years ago and is deservedly considered a classic. The book brought into focus the fundamental difference that exists between the two basic approaches to the textual representation of reality in Western culture. These two styles, as Auerbach called them, were archetypically displayed in Homer's poems and in the Old Testament, respectively. Auerbach's differentiation is the starting point for Bandera's insightful work, which expands and develops on this theory in several key ways. One of the more significant differences between the two styles transcends and grounds all the others. It concerns the truth of each of the two archetypal texts, or rather, the attitude exhibited in those texts with regard to the truth of what they narrate. Auerbach, Bandera notes, is amazed at the Bible's passionate concern for the truth of what it saysa concern he found absent in Homer. Bandera finds that what the prophet Isaiah called a refuge of lies defines Homer's work. He draws on his own research and Ren Girard's theory of the sacred to develop an enhanced perspective of the relationship between these texts. |
| Contents |
Prologue; Introduction; Chapter 1. Auerbach's Mimesis Revisited; Chapter 2. The "Overwhelming Scourge" and the Iliad; Chapter 3. Simone Weil: Between Homer and Christ; Chapter 4. From Virgil to the Modern Era; Chapter 5. Fiction Desacralized and Don Quixote's Madness; Epilogue; Notes; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Religion and literature.
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Religion and literature. |
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Philosophy and religion in literature.
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Philosophy and religion in literature. |
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Mimesis (The Greek word)
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Mimesis (The Greek word) |
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Truth in literature.
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Truth in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bandera, Cesáreo. Refuge of lies. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2013] (DLC) 2012049421 (OCoLC)829999327 |
| ISBN |
1609173783 (electronic book) |
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9781609173784 (electronic book) |
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9781628960365 (electronic book) |
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1628960361 (electronic book) |
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9781611860887 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1611860881 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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