Auerbach's Performance and the American Academy, or How New Haven Stole the Idea of Mimesis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Contributors xi
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I: The Everyday and History
7. "Pathos of the Earthly Progress": Erich Auerbach's Everydays 13
8. Auerbach's "Hidden" (?) Theory of History 36
9. Auerbach and Literary History 50
10. PART II: Philology, Language, and History
11. Philology in Auerbach's Drama of (Literary) History 63
12. Philology and Collaboration: The Case of Adam and Eve 78
13. Medieval Vernaculars and the Myth of Monoglossia: A Conspiracy of Linguistics and Philology 92
14. PART III: Figural History, Historical Figures
15. Figura, Allegory, and the Question of History 107
16. Auerbach's Literary History: Figural Causation and Modernist Historicism 124
17. PART IV: Turning Points in Literary History
18. Literary Realism in the Later Ancient Period 143
19. The Ideology of Periodization: Mimesis 10 and the Late Medieval Aesthetic 156
20. PART V: Legacies
21. Auerbach's Performance and the American Academy, or How New Haven Stole the Idea of Mimesis 179
22. On the Reception of Mimesis 195
23. Erich Auerbach and the "Inner Dream" of Transcendence 214
24. Literature as Language: Auerbach, Spitzer,Jakobson 227
25. Notes 243
26. Index 299