William Calin is a graduate research professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida.

'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.' - Francesco G. Loriggio (College of Humanities, Carleton University)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART 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

William Calin is a graduate research professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida.

'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.' - Francesco G. Loriggio (College of Humanities, Carleton University)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART 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

William Calin is a graduate research professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida.

'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.' - Francesco G. Loriggio (College of Humanities, Carleton University)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART 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