Essays on European literature.
Subtitle: Kritische Essays zur europäischen Literatur
By: by E. R. Curtius. Translated by Michael Kowal.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 508
Subjects: European literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Translation of the 2d ed. (1954) of Kritische Essays zur europäischen Literatur.
Table of contents: title: Kowal, M. Introduction.; title: Virgil.; title: Rudolf Borchardt on Virgil.; title: Goethe as critic.; title: Goethe as administrator.; title: Fundamental features of Goethe's world.; title: Friedrich Schlegel and France.; title: Stefan George in conversation.; title: To the memory of Hofmannsthal.; title: George, Hofmannsthal, and Calderón.; title: Hermann Hesse.; title: New encounter with Balzac.; title: Emerson.; title: Unamuno.; title: Charles Du Bos.; title: Ortega y Gasset.; title: Ramón Pérez de Ayala.; title: James Joyce and his Ulysses.; title: T. S. Eliot.; title: Toynbee's theory of history.; title: Jorge Guillén.; title: Remarks on the French novel.; title: The young Cocteau.; title: William Goyen.; title: The ship of the Argonauts.