In the excitement and rapid pace of developments, writing pedagogical texts has low priority for most researchers. However, in transforming my lecture l notes into this book, I found a personal benefit: the organization of what I understand in a (hopefully simple) logical sequence. Very little in th[...]

Between the postwar years and the 1980s in Britain, and in particular in London, a number of figurative painters simultaneously reinvented the way in which life is represented in art. Focusing on the depiction of the human figure, these artists rendered the frailty and vitality of the human conditio[...]

Frank Auerbach (b.1931, Berlin) has made some of the most resonant, inventive and perpetually alive paintings, both of people and of the urban landscapes near his studio in Camden Town, London. His intentions have been consistent: 'What I wanted to do was to record the life that seemed to me to be p[...]

This book is designed to be the most comprehensive book on splenic pathology to date. It is an easy to use, overview of the lesions, both neoplastic and nonneoplastic, that arise in the spleen. Topics of focus include infectious diseases and lymphoproliferative disorders of the spleen. It analyzes e[...]

Erich Auerbach var professor i romansk filologi i Marburg da han som jøde ble tvunget i eksil i 1936. Hans hovedverk Mimesis ble skrevet i Istanbul med verdenskrigen som bakgrunn. Bokens tema er hvordan virkeligheten tolkes gjennom den litterære fremstilling eller «etterligning». Boken tar oss [...]

Erich Auerbachs Mimesis, 3 000 års litteraturhistoria, från Homeros till Virginia Woolf, från rulle till kodex, från inkunabel till pocket - nu som digitalt förberedd print-on-demand. Mimesis publicerades 1946. Det är ett klassiskt och epokgörande litteraturhistoriskt verk som alla som läst [...]