Comparative Criticism: Volume 23, Humanist Traditions in the Twentieth Century: An Annual JournalE. S. Shaffer Cambridge University Press, 2001 M10 4 - 396 pages Comparative Criticism addresses itself to the questions of literary theory and criticism. This new volume looks at the Humanist Tradition in the Twentieth Century and articles will include: The Book in the Totalitarian Context; Lorenzo Valla and Changing Perceptions of Renaissance Humanism; Hitler's Berlin; Civilisation and barbarism: an anthropological approach; Walter Pater to Adrian Stokes: psychoanalysis and humanism; Art History and Humanist Tradition in the Stefan George Circle. The winning entries in the 1999-2000 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are also published. |
Contents
JAMES HANKINS Two twentiethcentury interpreters of Renaiss | 3 |
BERNHARD FABIAN The book in the totalitarian context | 21 |
JILL KRAYE Lorenzo Valla and changing perceptions | 37 |
ERIKA RUMMEL Erasmian humanism in the twentieth century | 69 |
IAIN BOYD WHYTE Hitlers Berlin | 117 |
HEINRICH DILLY The German National Committee of | 145 |
an anthropological | 155 |
psychoanalysis | 201 |
Winners of the 2000 BCLABCLT Translation Competition | 271 |
poems | 283 |
two chapters from a novel | 301 |
a short story | 317 |
ANTHONY LEVI On the I Tatti Renaissance Library | 335 |
Taboo | 343 |
on Katherine | 349 |
Books and periodicals received | 361 |
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