Mimesis:The Representation of Lived Reality in Western and Non-Western Literatures of the World
Erich Auerbach's book Mimesis:The Representation of Reality in Western Literature is certainly,in the long run,one of the most influential publications in the field of studies on realism.In his book written in exile from Nazi Germany,Auerbach investigates the concept of"mimesis"in a transhistorical series of studies,organized as an archipelagic writing,from Greek and Roman Antiquity through the Middle Ages until the 20th Century.He distinguishes two different modes of representations of reality(dargestellte Wirklichkeit)in Western literatures that we could qualify as continental and archipelagic.This paper aims to study these two modes of writing realism in Western and non-Western literatures,focusing on the representations of lived reality specially in Literatures with no fixed Abode from the 18th century until our day.What are the epistemic changes and transformations when we talk about life and lived reality when dealing with realism?
mimesisErich Auerbachcontinental vs.archipelagic representationsHong Lou MengCan Xuerepresentations of lived reality
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