In order grasp the meaning and get a comprehensive insight into Auerbach’s Mimesis I see the need to scrutinize the backgrounds of the author’s inspiration and circumstances of the process of writing, together with the historical context of the work in what it figures (e.g. suppression based on his Jewish heritage, his further exile, controversial issues with the Nazi philological grounds etc.), as I feel my knowledge are rather general and arbitrary on this matter, as a result this lack may lead to rather subjunctive interpretation.
In Odysseus’ Scar Auerbach focuses on “two equally ancient and equally epic texts” (P: 11) – Homer’s Odyssey and the Old Testament, which the two styles “exercised their determining influence upon the representation
In Odysseus’ Scar Auerbach focuses on “two equally ancient and equally epic texts” (P: 11) – Homer’s Odyssey and the Old Testament, which the two styles “exercised their determining influence upon the representation