Auerbach's reading of Renaissance writing presents a challenge to the pessimism of today, and in Mimesis he reveals democratic possibility through such writers as Dante, Rabelais, Montaigne, and Shakespeare. Christopher Warley rediscovers the powerful beauty of this major critical work and shows its vitality for contemporary literary criticism.
Auerbach's reading of Renaissance writing presents a challenge to the pessimism of today, and in Mimesis he reveals democratic possibility through such writers as Dante, Rabelais, Montaigne, and Shakespeare. Christopher Warley rediscovers the powerful beauty of this major critical work and shows its vitality for contemporary literary criticism.
Christopher Warley teaches Renaissance literature and Critical Theory at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Reading Class Through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton (2014) and Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England (2005), both published by Cambridge University Press.
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Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations of frequently cited texts 1. The sentimental tourist 2. The coy critic 3. At the foot of the mountain of purgatory 4. The mixed style 5. The friendly word 6. Standard operating procedure 7. Two stories of brave mothers Afterword to his coy mistress List of figures.
Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations of frequently cited texts 1. The sentimental tourist 2. The coy critic 3. At the foot of the mountain of purgatory 4. The mixed style 5. The friendly word 6. Standard operating procedure 7. Two stories of brave mothers Afterword to his coy mistress List of figures.
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