Auerbach’s Simplicity: ‘A Keen Eye for the Obvious’
It is easy to forget: criticism is, first and foremost, writing. By Dr. Christopher Warley Professor of Renaissance Literature and Critical Theory University of Toronto “A good writer must write in such a way that one infers from the text what he intended to express. That is not easy.” So declared Erich Auerbach in his “Epilegomena[…]