Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

7 best books like Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Erich Auerbach): Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, Marxism and Literature, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Anatomy of Criticism, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, S/Z: An Essay, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

Author	Herbert Marcuse
ISBN	0807015555

"When philosophy conceives the essence of being as Logos, it is already the Logos of domination--commanding, mastering, directing reason, to which man and nature are to be subjected" (125)

"In its refusal to accept as final the limitations imposed upon freedom and happiness by the reality...

Marxism and Literature

Author	Raymond Williams
ISBN	0198760612

This book extends the theme of Raymond Williams's earlier work in literary and cultural analysis. He analyzes previous contributions to a Marxist theory of literature from Marx himself to Lukacs, Althusser, and Goldmann, and develops his own approach by outlining a theory of cultural materialism'...

The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

Author	Jean-François Lyotard
ISBN	0816611734

This book explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our post-modernity. Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when...

Anatomy of Criticism

Author	Northrop Frye
ISBN	0691069999

Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. Employing examples of world literature from ancient times to...

The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays

Author

Mikhail Bakhtin

These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections...

S/Z: An Essay

Author	Roland Barthes
ISBN	0374521670

I must be honest this was a re-read for me. Barthes's works were pre-eminent when I was navigating my way through university. So encouraged were we to embrace this 'enfant terrible' that I very nearly wrote my PhD on his ideas (in the end it had to be Poe!). Looking back now though there is no doubt that 'The...

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

Author	Walter Benjamin
ISBN	0805202412

Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov...