Libraries of the Mind - Hardcover
by William Marx
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Availability:In StockContributor:William MarxSeries:Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European CulturePublish date:2025-05-20Pages:200
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691267425ISBN-10:691267421UPC:9780691267425Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Books & Reading, Semiotics & Theory, Comparative LiteratureSize:7.20 x 4.60 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC7XX22KYM
Libraries of the Mind
How we build our invisible libraries
Erich Auerbach wrote his classic work Mimesis, a history of narrative from Homer to Proust, based largely on his memory of past reading. Having left his physical library behind when he fled to Istanbul to escape the Nazis, he was forced to rely on the invisible library of his mind. Each of us has such a library--if not as extensive as Auerbach's--even if we...Series: Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691267425ISBN-10:691267421UPC:9780691267425Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Books & Reading, Semiotics & Theory, Comparative LiteratureSize:7.20 x 4.60 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC7XX22KYM
William Marx is professor of comparative literature at the Coll?ge de France. He is the author of The Hatred of Literature, The Tomb of Oedipus: Why Greek Tragedies Were Not Tragic, and other books.
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