Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics : : From Spitzer to Frye /

Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics : : From Spitzer to Frye / / William Calin.

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 Béguin, Jean Rousset, C.S. Lewis, F.O. Matthiessen, and Northrop Frye. William Calin first considers...

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Calin, William,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2007
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part one
  • 1. Leo Spitzer; or, How to Read a Text
  • 2. The Continuity of Western Literature: Ernst Robert Curtius
  • 3. The Evolution of Western Literature: Erich Auerbach
  • 4. Albert Béguin and the Origins of Literary Modernism
  • 5. Academic Criticism at Its Best: Jean Rousset
  • 6. C.S. Lewis and the Discarded Image of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  • 7. The Search for an American Usable Past: F.O. Matthiessen
  • 8. Northrop Frye's Totalizing Vision: the Order of Words
  • Part two
  • 9. Discussion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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