generalization

narrative tyranny

tragic realism

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German

religion

Judaism

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philologist

comparative scholar

literary critic

translator

Romanist

linguist

university teacher

innovator in the field of

linguistics

librarian

literary historian

is the unpacking of long works and even entire cultures out of a close encounter with a tiny fragment because he is less concerned with sequence and form than he is with 'the representation of reality.

It is possible for Auerbach to unpack long works and even entire cultures out of a close encounter with a tiny fragment because he is less concerned with sequence and form than he is with 'the representation of reality.' Hence he does not need to say something about the origin and internal structure of a work so much as he needs to address and explicate its characteristic practice of referring to the world .. . The literary work is interesting to Auerbach not for its swerve away from reality . . . but rather for its claim on the world, its ability to give the reader access to the very condition for perception and action, along with the very condition for textuality, at a given place and time, in a given culture.' (Stephen Greenblatt and Catherine Gallagher)

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is the troubling juncture between the known surfaces of life and language and those depths that one can only sense.

Tragic realism' is Auerbach's way of naming the troubling juncture between the surfaces of life and language, which one can both know and feel, and the plunging vertical aspect of some other dimension altogether, which one can only sense. It is at such moments that mimesis is achieved the representation of the essential unity of a character with its fate in all their blinding reality and luminous 'evidence,' as revealed in a singular act of the self.' (Porter in Aurbach 2013: xxix)

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