Merci... I have *not* read this, as happens.  Hmm.  One suspects I will,
soon...

darkelf, trying to keep current in the field... 


--- Barb Jernigan  wrote:
> though I bet you've read it already:
> 
> "Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western
Literature" by Erich
> Auerbach
> 
> In the opening chapter of this legendary work, Erich Auerbach uses brief
> episodes from the Odyssey and the Bible to show how the differences in
> their respective literary styles bespeak contrasting apprehensions of
> reality. In these two contrasting storytelling styles Auerbach finds a
> fundamental dichotomy which he then proceeds to trace through all of
> European literature. Incomparable in its analytical and historical
> richness, "Mimesis" is a literary feast.   563 pages  
Paperback   $8.00
>   Usually ships within 24 hours
> 
> http://www.commonreader.com/pr001729/0121TW
> 
> also:
> "The English Novel: From the Earliest Days to the Death of Joseph
> Conrad" by Ford Madox Ford
>                   
> I've enjoyed and admired this bracingly idiosyncratic overview of the
> English novel from its earliest days to the death Joseph Conrad: it
> embodies the robust, unorthodox opinionatedness of a man-of-letters who
> loved literature as a living presence and studied it "with the eyes of a
> craftsman surveying his own particular job."  148 pages   Paperback  
> $8.00   Usually ships within 24 hours
>  
> http://www.commonreader.com/pr002136/0121TW
>  
> there is that in me that's really tempted, tygress
> 
> 
> ======
> Life goes headlong. We chase some flying scheme, or we are hunted by some
> fear or command behind us. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
> ======
> Idealistic as the resolution ritual is, it asks us to be better than we
> are, to live consciously in a culture that invites somnambulism and
> apathy. And for a time -- maybe even for a long time -- we ARE better.
> --Cate Terwilliger


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Obsequium parit amicos; veritas parit odium.  - Cicero
(Compliance produces friends; truth produces hate.)

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