Comparative Criticism
A Yearbook

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Editor's note: rhetoric, 'orientalism', and comparative method
Part I. Rhetoric and History:
1. The discourse of history Roland Barthes, translated with an introduction by Stephen Bann
2. The historian as taxidermist: Ranke, Barante, Waterton Stephen Bann
3. Literature and ideology J. P. Stern, translated by Sheila Stern
4. Langland's ymaginatif and late-medieval theories of imagination Alastair J. Minnis
5. Rhetorical and anti-rhetorical tropes: on writing the history of elocutio Brian Vickers
6. The epic of ideas: Lucan's De bello civili and Paradise Lost Charles Martindale
7. Foundations of oriental and comparative studies: the correspondence of Sir William Jones Garland Cannon
8. Letters of Sir William Jones and his correspondents: letters to Richard Johnson, Sir John Macpherson, Thomas Maurice, the Starcks, and from Whang Atong, James Burnett, Eliphalet Pearson, and Sir George Yonge
Part II. Translations:
9. 'Pentecost' and other poems Alessandro Manzoni, translated by Kenelm Foster
10. Manzoni's poetry and the witnessing of events Michael Caesar
11. Allegories of trivialization: Strindberg's view of history Göran Printz-Påhlson
12. The mysticism of world history August Strindberg, translated by Michael Robinson
Part III. Essay Reviews:
13. The rhetoric of history and the history of rhetoric: on Hayden White's tropes Arnaldo Momigliano
14. New rhetorics for old Peter France
15. Translating for humanists: Erasmus and Rabelais Terrence Cave
16. Halliday's linguistic model for criticism Roger Fowler
17. On Hugh MacDiarmid's Complete Poems 1920–1976 Edwin Morgan
Books received
Bibliography of rhetoric studies, 1970–80
Bibliography of comparative literature in Britain, 1978.

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