In the first chapter of this work, the author recalls letters exchanged in 1797 between Goethe and S
In the first chapter of this work, the author recalls letters exchanged in 1797 between Goethe and Schiller on the "retarding element" in Homeric literature. The last chapter focuses on Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and is often published independently under the title The Brown Stocking. Throughout the work the author seeks to trace the development of realism in literature and claims that modern realism was born in the character Julien Sorel. Named for the concept which Aristotle contrasted to diegesis --for 10 points-- name this history of representation in literature by Erich Auerbach.
In the first chapter of this work, the author recalls letters exchanged in 1797 between Goethe and Schiller on the "retarding element" in Homeric literature.
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