Erich Auerbach's Mimesis as a Meditation on the Shoah
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3639752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Earl Jeffrey Richards (University of Wuppertal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 62-91 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | German Politics & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-0300 • E-ISSN: 1558-5441 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/104503001782385625 |
| OpenAlex | W1981345840 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Within the enormous body of critical writings dedicated to literaryworks devoted to the Shoah, the possibility of its very representationand the problems arising in the potential deformation of memoryare frequent topics. In light of these issues, it might be helpful toexamine a well-known work of literary scholarship, Erich Auerbach'sMimesis, The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, writtenbetween May 1942 and April 1945, as a potentially overlookedexample of a highly sublimated allegorical meditation on the contemporarymurder of Europe's Jews. Auerbach's classic work, whichexplicitly takes literary representation as its central theme, seems touse carefully and subtly selected examples from western literature asfigures for current events
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Literature · Meditation · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · The Holocaust · Theology · Western literature · Computer Science · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |