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© 2016 University of Toronto Press, Toronto

© 2016 University of Toronto Press, Toronto

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part one
  6. 1. Leo Spitzer; or, How to Read a Text 15
  7. 2. The Continuity of Western Literature: Ernst Robert Curtius 29
  8. 3. The Evolution of Western Literature: Erich Auerbach 43
  9. 4. Albert Béguin and the Origins of Literary Modernism 57
  10. 5. Academic Criticism at Its Best: Jean Rousset 70
  11. 6. C.S. Lewis and the Discarded Image of the Middle Ages and Renaissance 85
  12. 7. The Search for an American Usable Past: F.O. Matthiessen 101
  13. 8. Northrop Frye’s Totalizing Vision: the Order of Words 118
  14. Part two
  15. 9. Discussion 141
  16. Notes 185
  17. Bibliography 221
  18. Index 249
Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics
This chapter is in the book Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442685048-014

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part one
  6. 1. Leo Spitzer; or, How to Read a Text 15
  7. 2. The Continuity of Western Literature: Ernst Robert Curtius 29
  8. 3. The Evolution of Western Literature: Erich Auerbach 43
  9. 4. Albert Béguin and the Origins of Literary Modernism 57
  10. 5. Academic Criticism at Its Best: Jean Rousset 70
  11. 6. C.S. Lewis and the Discarded Image of the Middle Ages and Renaissance 85
  12. 7. The Search for an American Usable Past: F.O. Matthiessen 101
  13. 8. Northrop Frye’s Totalizing Vision: the Order of Words 118
  14. Part two
  15. 9. Discussion 141
  16. Notes 185
  17. Bibliography 221
  18. Index 249
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