{"product_id":"auerbachs-renaissance-rebirths-of-an-aesthetic-from-shakespeare-to-ferrante-hardback-9781009545495","title":"Auerbach's Renaissance; Rebirths of an Aesthetic from Shakespeare to Ferrante (Hardback) 9781009545495","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAuerbach's Renaissance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRebirths of an Aesthetic from Shakespeare to Ferrante\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFocusing on Auerbach's reading in Mimesis of the aesthetic of Renaissance writing, Christopher Warley discovers a future for literary study.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChris Warley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009545495, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 April 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'An exciting development in Renaissance studies today is a return to theory that brings literature into the foreground as open possibility. Christopher Warley's brilliant book on Shakespeare and the most famous innovator in postwar literary theory, Erich Auerbach, leads the field for new possibilities in Renaissance studies.' Gordon Teskey, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Harvard University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eErich Auerbach's Mimesis is among the most admired works of literary criticism of the last hundred years. Amidst the horrors of the Second World War, Auerbach's prodigious learning managed – almost miraculously – to give voice to a delicate, subtle optimism. Focusing on Auerbach's account of Renaissance literature, Christopher Warley rediscovers the powerful beauty of Mimesis and shows its vitality for contemporary literary criticism. Analysing Auerbach's account of Renaissance love lyric alongside Woolf's To the Lighthouse, fifteenth-century Burgundian writing alongside Ferrante, and Shakespeare alongside Michelet, Ruskin and Burckhardt, Auerbach's Renaissance traces an aesthetic that celebrates the diversity of human life. Simultaneously it locates in Auerbach's reading of Renaissance writing a challenge to the pessimism of today, the sense that we live in an endless present where the future looms only as a threat. Auerbach's scholarship, the art he learns from Dante, Rabelais, Montaigne, and Shakespeare, is a Renaissance offering democratic possibility.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations of frequently cited texts\u003cbr\u003e 1. The sentimental tourist\u003cbr\u003e 2. The coy critic\u003cbr\u003e 3. At the foot of the mountain of purgatory\u003cbr\u003e 4. The mixed style\u003cbr\u003e 5. The friendly word\u003cbr\u003e 6. Standard operating procedure\u003cbr\u003e 7. Two stories of brave mothers\u003cbr\u003e Afterword to his coy mistress\u003cbr\u003e List of figures.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52463006122264,"sku":"9781009545495","price":30.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009545495i.jpg?v=1785544908","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/auerbachs-renaissance-rebirths-of-an-aesthetic-from-shakespeare-to-ferrante-hardback-9781009545495","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}