· ABSTRACT The aim of this thesis is to examine the notion of realism as discussed by Erich Auerbach in his two critical works, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature and Dante: Poet of the Secular World. My interpretation of Auerbach is applied to Dante’s Inferno, cantos V, X and XXXIII, William Blake’s companion poems. · DANTE Poet of the Secular World ERICH AUERBACH (–) was born in Berlin, educated at the Universities of Heidelberg and Greifswald, and served in the German army during World War I. A professor at the University of Marburg, Auerbach fled Hitler’s . Erich Auerbach’s Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world’s greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas/5(2).
Erich Auerbach, Dante: Poet of the Secular World, translated by Ralph Manheim (University of Chicago Press, ). ⎯ Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages, translated by Ralph Manheim (Princeton University Press, ). The following is an excerpt from Erich Auerbach's publication, Dante: Poet of the Secular World - 'The story of Christ is more than the parousia of the logos, more than the manifestation of the www.doorway.ru it the idea is subjected to the problematic character and desperate injustice of earthly happening. Dante: Poet of the Secular World by Erich Auerbach () According to Auerbach, Dante was the first to describe "man not as an abstract or anecdotal representative of an ethical type, but man as we know him in his living historical reality, the concrete individual in his unity and wholeness after Dante myth and legend also became history.
Auerbach’s first book was Dante: Poet of the Secular World. It was published in Berlin in , the same year that Eliot’s Dante was published in London. Auerbach’s book was not translated into English until and, until now, has been out of print for a long time. Erich Auerbach's Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Dante, Auerbach believes, turned away from the idea of man as an abstract or legendary formulation of a moral type, seeing him rather as a known, living, historically bound individual. The book traces the idea and history. This major work by Erich Auerbach asserts that the "Divine Comedy" contains a conception of art and reality which influenced all later poets and artists.
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