Der ‚Realismusbegriff‘ in Auerbachs Mimesis als Symptom der Paradoxien eines liberalen Weltliteraturdiskurses
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article undertakes a reading of Auerbach’s Mimesis against the background of his remarks on world literature and world philology. These are first discussed with recourse to Goethe’s concept of world literature as elements of a liberal discourse on world literature, in order to then show how Auerbach works through certain shortcomings of this discourse in Mimesis. In the process, Auerbach’s concept of realism emerges as a way of inscribing a political dimension into philological activity that specifies the future-oriented tendency inherent in liberal world literature discourse.
Source: Polythesis
Author: Caroline Mannweiler
Institution: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7083805551
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