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Informationen zum Autor William Calin is a graduate research professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida. Klappentext 'The Humanist Critics is a very engaging work, full of insights on critics that are due for a re-reading. Eminently readable, William Calin's book is timely and original in its treatment of the relationship between humanism and contemporary literary studies.'-Francesco G. Loriggio Zusammenfassung Revisits the work and place of eight scholars contemporary with Anglo-American New Criticism. This work considers the achievements of each critic, examining his methodology and basic presuppositions as well as the critiques marshalled against him. It also explores their relation to history, to canon-formation, and to our theoretical debates. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART ONE Leo Spitzer; or! How to Read a Text The Continuity of Western Literature: Ernst Robert Curtius The Evolution of Western Literature: Erich Auerbach Albert Beguin and the Origins of Literary Modernism Academic Criticism at Its Best: Jean Rousset C.S. Lewis and the Discarded Image of the Middle Ages and Renaissance The Search for an American Usable Past: F.O. Matthiessen Northrop Frye's Totalizing Vision: The Order of WordsPART TWO DiscussionNotesBibliographyIndex
