Comparative Criticism
An Annual Journal
Volume 23. Humanist Traditions in the Twentieth Century
Part of Comparative Criticism
- Editor: E. S. Shaffer, University of London
- Date Published: December 2001
- availability: Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521808071
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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; Civilization and Barbarism: an anthropological approach; Walter Pater to Adrian Stokes: psychoanalysis and humanism; Art History and Humanist Tradition in the Stefan George Circle.
Read more- Includes a wide range of comparative topics and interdisciplinary debates
- Features substantial bibliographies on individual writers and specialist themes for the year
- Publishes winning entries from the 1999 BCLA/BCLT translation competition
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- Date Published: December 2001
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521808071
- length: 396 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 160 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.679kg
- availability: Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Humanist Tradition in the Twentieth Century Bernhard Fabian: The book in the totalitarian context
Lorenzo Valla and changing perceptions of Renaissance humanism Jill Kraye
Erasmian humanism in the twentieth century Erika Rummel
Humanism and Fascism Tim Benton
Hitler's Berlin Iain Boyd Whyte
The German National Committee of the Fifteenth International Congress of the History of Art in London, 1939 Heinrich Dilly
Civilization and barbarism: an anthropological approach Pat Caplan
Scientific humanism Gregory Blue
Walter Pater to Adrian Stokes: psychoanalysis and humanism Stephen Bann
Art history and humanist tradition in the Stefan George Circle Ernst Osterkamp
Humanisms: Picasso, Waldemar George and the politics of 'Man' in the 1930s Christopher Green
Part II. Literature and Translation: Molière Sganarelle (translated from the French by Bill Kirton)
Juan Manuel Arango This Place in the Night: poems (translated from the Spanish by Anabel Torres)
Halldór Laxness The Fair Maiden: two chapters from a novel (translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton)
Ruben Fonseca Lúcia McCartney: a short story (translated from the Portuguese by Ana Frankenberg-Garcia)
Part III. Essay Reviews: On the I Tatti Renaissance Anthony Levi
On Franz Steiner, Selected Writings, volume I: Taboo, Truth and Religion N. J. Allen
volume II: Orientpolitik, Value and Civilisation
Turning Descartes upside down: on Katherine Hayles, How we Became Posthuman Jeff Wallace
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