{"product_id":"dante-erich-auerbach-9781590172193","title":"Dante: Poet of the Secular World","description":"Erich Auerbach's \u003ci\u003eDante: Poet of the Secular World\u003c\/i\u003e is an inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth-century scholar-critics, makes the seemingly paradoxical claim that it is in the poetry of Dante, supreme among religious poets, and above all in the stanzas of his \u003ci\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e, that the secular world of the modern novel first took imaginative form. Auerbach's study of Dante, a precursor and necessary complement to \u003ci\u003eMimesis\u003c\/i\u003e, his magisterial overview of realism in Western literature, illuminates both the overall structure and the individual detail of Dante's work, showing it to be an extraordinary synthesis of the sensuous and the conceptual, the particular and the universal, that redefined notions of human character and fate and opened the way into modernity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003eI. Historical Introduction; The Idea of Man in Literature\u003cbr\u003eII. Dante's Early Poetry\u003cbr\u003eIII. The Subject of the \"Comedy\"\u003cbr\u003eIV. The Structure of the \"Comedy\"\u003cbr\u003eV. The Presentation\u003cbr\u003eVI. The Survival and Transformation of Dante's Vision of Reality\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erich Auerbach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590172191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590172193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/16\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.03w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2007 pg. 251","brand":"Erich Auerbach","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44044605194495,"sku":"9781590172193","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2b013e5f-ff5e-4f42-ac46-eaa42fb37701.jpg?v=1684973809","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dante-erich-auerbach-9781590172193","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}