In the “Fortunata” chapter of his landmark study, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality, Eric Auerbach contrasts two representations of reality, one found in the New Testament Gospels, the other in texts by Homer and a few other classical writers. As with much of Auerbach’s writing, the sweep of his generalizations is broad. Long excerpts are chosen from […]
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Auerbach Was Right: A Computational Study of the Odyssey and the Gospels
Posted in Counting Other Things, Quant Theory
Also tagged Auerbach, Docuscope, translation
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