In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach writes, "My purpose is always to write history." Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, he explores major concerns raised in his Mimesis: the historical and social contexts in which writings were received, and issues of aesthetics, semantics, stylistics, and sociology that anticipate the concerns of the new historicism.
| ISBN: | 9780691024684 |
| Publication date: | 5th August 1993 |
| Author: | Erich Auerbach |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 456 pages |
| Series: | Bollingen Series |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism |