{"product_id":"twentiethcentury-humanist-critics-9780802092830","title":"TwentiethCentury Humanist Critics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics\u003c\/em\u003e revisits the work and place of eight scholars roughly contemporary with Anglo-American New Criticism: Leo Spitzer, Ernst Robert Curtius, Erich Auerbach, Albert Béguin, 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 their relation to history, to canon-formation, and to our current theoretical debates. He then goes on to show how all eight form a current in the history of criticism related to both humanism and modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderscoring the international, cosmopolitian aspects of literary scholarship in the twentieth century, \u003cem\u003eThe Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics\u003c\/em\u003e brings together humanist critical traditions from Europe, the United Kingdom, and North America and reveals the surprising extent to which, in various languages and academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The Twentieth-Century 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.' -- Frances G. Loriggio College of Humanities, Carleton University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART      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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405229531479,"sku":"9780802092830","price":53.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802092830.jpg?v=1730489202","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/twentiethcentury-humanist-critics-9780802092830","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}