Time, history, and literature : selected essays of Erich Auerbach

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General Note:	Translated from the German.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-276) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Pt. I History and the Philosophy of History: Vico, Herder, and Hegel -- 1. Vico's Contribution to Literary Criticism (1958) -- 2. Vico and Herder (1932) -- 3. Giambattista Vico and the Idea of Philology (1936) -- 4. Vico and Aesthetic Historism (1948) -- 5. Vico and the National Spirit (1955) -- 6. Idea of the National Spirit as the Source of the Modern Humanities (ca.1955) -- pt. II Time and Temporality in Literature -- 7. Figura (1938) -- 8. Typological Symbolism in Medieval Literature (1952) -- 9. On the Anniversary Celebration of Dante (1921) -- 10. Dante and Vergil (1931) -- 11. Discovery of Dante by Romanticism (1929) -- 12. Romanticism and Realism (1933) -- 13. Marcel Proust and the Novel of Lost Time (1927) -- pt. III Passionate Subjects, from the Bible to Secular Modernity -- 14. Passio as Passion (1941) -- 15. Three Traits of Dante's Poetry (1948) -- 16. Montaigne the Writer (1932) -- 17. On Pascal's Political Theory (1941) -- 18. Racine and the Passions (1927) -- 19. On Rousseau's Place in History (1932) -- 20. Philology of World Literature (1952).