Its author was a medievalist, and as a result, seven of its twenty chapters concern medieval works.
Its author was a medievalist, and as a result, seven of its twenty chapters concern medieval works. The author of, Dante: Poet of the Secular World, begins the first chapter of this work with a comparison of the narrative structure of the Homeric epics and the Bible, juxtaposing the telling of the discovery of the disguised hero by Penelope's servant Euryclea and the binding of Isaac story, in "Odysseus' Scar." Its title is taken from the Greek word for imitation or representation and it is subtitled "The Representation of Reality in Western Literature." For 10 points, name this work of literary criticism written by the German Eric Auerbach.
Its author was a medievalist, and as a result, seven of its twenty chapters concern medieval works.
{Mimesis}