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?
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