Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics: From Spitzer to Frye

by William Calin

Book Overview

The Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics revisits the work and place of eight scholars roughly contemporary with Anglo-American New Criticism: Leo Spitzer, Ernst Robert Curtius, Erich Auerbach, Albert B guin, Jean Rousset, C.S. Lewis, F.O. Matthiessen, and Northrop Frye. William Calin first considers the achievements of each critic, examining his methodology and basic presuppositions as well as the critiques marshalled against him. Calin explores...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802094759
• ISBN13: 9780802094759
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.0"