The twentieth-century humanist critics : from Spitzer to Frye /

The Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics revisits the work and place of eight scholars roughly contemporary with Anglo-American New Criticism: Leo Spitzer, Ernst Robert Curtius, Erich Auerbach, Albert Beguin, Jean Rousset, C.S. Lewis, F.O. Matthiessen, and Northrop Frye.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Calin, William
Corporate Author: Scholars Portal
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2007
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Table of Contents:
  • Leo Spitzer ; or, how to read a text
  • The continuity of Western literature : Ernest Robert Curtis
  • The evolution of Western literature : Erich Auerbach
  • Albert Béguin and the origins of literary modernism
  • Academic criticism at its best : Jean Rousset
  • C.S. Lewis and the discarded image of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  • The search for an American usable past : F.O. Matthiessen
  • Northrop Frye's totalizing vision : the order of words.