THE BUILDING OF A WORLD: GERMAN AND JEWISH ROOTS IN ERICH AUERBACH´S LITERARY HISTORY / A CONSTRUÇÃO DE UM MUNDO: RAÍZES GERMÂNICAS E JUDAICAS NA HISTÓRIA LITERÁRIA DE ERICH AUERBACH
AUTOR(ES)
BEATRIZ CEPELOWICZ LESSA
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2004
RESUMO
The aim of this work is to understand the growing role of the philological research in the western literary history written by the Jewish-German romance philologist Erich Auerbach (1892-1957). His literary history was written during the Second World War (Mimesis - The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - 1946) and in the post- war period (Literary Language and its Public in late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages - 1956). We develop the assumption that his Jewish condition and his formation in the German discipline of Romance Philology (Romanistik) have contributed to a sui-generis vision of the origins and the path of western literature. This double condition, Jewish-German, also determined the core of his philological research, focused on texts of the pagan and Christian Antiquity, specially the patristical. The philological essays form, together with the literary history, a complex and articulated corpus, which constitutes the whole work of Auerbach. In this work, we seek to dig it`s Jewish and German roots.
ASSUNTO(S)
ocidente western novo testamento new testament jewish europe christianity cristianismo velho testamento literary language europa linguagem literaria judaismo old testament
