The twentieth-century humanist critics
Subtitle: from Spitzer to Frye
By: William Calin.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780802092830; 9780802094759
Subjects: Criticism -- History -- 20th century.; Humanism -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-248) and index.
Table of contents: value: Leo Spitzer ; or, how to read a text; value: The continuity of Western literature : Ernest Robert Curtis; value: The evolution of Western literature : Erich Auerbach; value: Albert Béguin and the origins of literary modernism; value: Academic criticism at its best : Jean Rousset; value: C.S. Lewis and the discarded image of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; value: The search for an American usable past : F.O. Matthiessen; value: Northrop Frye's totalizing vision : the order of words.