A refuge of lies : reflections on faith and fiction / / Cesáreo Bandera

• Autore: Bandera Cesáreo
• Pubblicazione: East Lansing : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (166 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.93382
• Soggetto topico: Religion and literature; Philosophy and religion in literature; Mimesis; Truth in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Prologue; Introduction; Chapter 1. Auerbach's Mimesis Revisited; Chapter 2. The "Overwhelming Scourge" and the Iliad; Chapter 3. Simone Weil: Between Homer and Christ; Chapter 4. From Virgil to the Modern Era; Chapter 5. Fiction Desacralized and Don Quixote's Madness; Epilogue; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 textual representation of reality in Western culture. These two "styles," as Auerbach called them, were archetypically displayed in Homer's poems and in the Old Testament, respectively. Auerbach's differentiation is the starting point for Bandera's insightful work, which expands and develops on this theory i
• Titolo autorizzato: A refuge of lies
• ISBN: 1-62895-029-3; 1-60917-378-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807847903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture