Contexts of the Classical

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface ix
3. CONTENTS xiii
4. WORKING DEFINITIONS
5. New Frontiers in the Humanities 3
6. Art as Knowledge 15
7. Contexts of the Classical 38
8. The Tradition of Tradition 55
9. What is Realism? 67
10. NOTATIONS ON NOVELISTS
11. The Example of Cervantes 79
12. Don Quixote and Moby-Dick 97
13. Balzac and Proust 110
14. Joyce's Sentimental Journey through France and Italy 131
15. Observations on the Style of Ernest Hemingway 140
16. LONG VIEWS
17. Society as Its Own Historian 171
18. Symbolism and Fiction 190
19. The War of Words in English Poetry 208
20. A Gallery of Mirrors 234
21. Criticism in Crisis 251
22. APPENDIX
23. James Joyce et l'Idèe de Littèrature Mondiale 269
24. Index 287