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Loading... Mimesis : verklighetsframställningen i den västerländska litteraturenI have always understood Mimesis to be legendary, because in its sweep it focuses on not only literature and literary history, but related fields like culture and philology, for example; and also because of its multiple values, e.g. instructive (in a tutorial sense) as well as entertaining and ... I've just started reading Mimesis in Norwegian. I assume that it's a (very) famous book about literature, and I wonder if other members have read/are reading this book, and would like to discuss/comment on it here.
By the way: I'm also reading a collection of essays (in Norwagion) by Auerbach: ... Hmmm... coming from Comparative Literature, it's a tie between Erich Auerbach's Mimesis and a pile of Foucault. ... situated his paintings in flemish towns.
If you want to see how this works in literature, I suggest Eric Auerbach's Mimesis or Hans Frei's Eclipse of Biblical Narrative. (Clearly Frei is dealing with one text. Auerbach deals with many. There is also a wonderful book called Annuciat ... ... of novel writing. It's different from books like King's On Writing, with it's biographical account, or Auerbach's Mimesis, with it's critical approach, in that Kundera engages with the Western tradition of novel writing, beginning with Cervantes, to show what it has done, is doing, can ...
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