"Don Quixote is often called the first modern novel; many would argue it is the greatest novel ever written. But compared with other world masterpieces - from the Iliad to Paradise Lost, or from Oedipus the King to Hamlet or Life Is a Dream, for example - the storyline of Don Qu…
Erich Auerbach's seminal Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature was published more than sixty years ago and is deservedly considered a classic. The book brought into focus the fundamental difference that exists between the two basic approaches to the textua…
Erich Auerbach's seminal Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature was published more than sixty years ago and is deservedly considered a classic. The book brought into focus the fundamental difference that exists between the two basic approaches to the textua…