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Auerbach was one of the foremost literary critics of the 20th century whose work has relevance within the fields of literary criticism, historiography and postcolonial theory. The opening chapter of this book explains how he understood the task of interpretation and his role as an interpreter. The following chapter outlines the important phases in his life with reference to the writers and thinkers who influenced him in his thinking and practice. The central chapters of the book focus on specific themes in his work: the historical grounding of the 'figural' imagination; the relation between the secular and the sacred; the emergence of tragic realism; and the notion of 'inner history' as a defining feature of early 20th-cenntury modernism. The final two chapters focus on broader issues relating to the development of Auerbach's understanding of the development of an educated readership within Europe and of his concerns regarding the emergence of what he terms 'a world literature'.
Contents
Introduction: Why Auerbach matters - and why now
Chapter 1 The interpretive task
Chapter 2 Outlines of a life
Chapter 3 Figural imagination
Chapter 4 The spiritual and the secular
Chapter 5 Tragic realism
Chapter 6 Inner history
Chapter 7 An educated public
Chapter 8 Widening horizons
Coda: Learning from Auerbach
Appendix: Chronology of Auerbach's life and works
