A refuge of lies: reflections on faith and fiction
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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East Lansing
Michigan State University Press
2013
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| In: | Year: 2013 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Bandera, Cesáreo, A refuge of lies : reflections on faith and fiction] (2014) (McKenna, Andrew J.)
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| Series/Journal: | Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture series
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| Further subjects: | B
Philosophy and religion in literature
B Mimesis B Truth in literature B Religion and literature |
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| Summary: | 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 in several key ways. One of the more significant differences between the two styles transcends and grounds all the others. It concerns the truth of each of the two archetypal texts, or rather, the attitude exhibited in those texts with regard to the truth of what they narrate. Auerbach, Bandera notes, is amazed at the Bible's passionate concern for the truth of what it saysa concern he found absent in Homer. Bandera finds that what the prophet Isaiah called a refuge of lies defines Homer's work. He draws on his own research and Ren Girard's theory of the sacred to develop an enhanced perspective of the relationship between these texts |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 1628960361 |