TY - EJOUR A1 - Tortonese, Paolo TI - Auerbach taken seriously T2 - Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France 2 – 2023, 123e année, n° 2. varia JO - Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France (ISSN 2105-2689), 26, 2 – 2023 DO - 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-14890-6.p.0013 SN - 2105-2689 SP - 13 EP - 26 AB - Mimesis is a book heavily rooted in the thesis that the history of Western literature can be imagined in terms of the contrast between a separation of styles and mixture of styles. These two opposing tendencies presuppose another cleavage, between the tragic and the comic. But while Auerbach reinterprets modern realism as a serious treatment of traditionally comical themes, he gives no explicit definition of the comic. Can we ascribe an implicit one to him? PY - 2023 DA - 2023/04/26 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris KW - mimesis, styles, realism, comic, tragic, Flaubert, Balzac LA - fre UR - https://classiques-garnier.com/revue-d-histoire-litteraire-de-la-france-2-2023-123e-annee-n-2-varia-auerbach-taken-seriously.html Y2 - 2024/07/17 ER -