William Calin

Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics: From Spitzer to Frye

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 Fryes Totalizing Vision: The Order of WordsPART TWO DiscussionNotesBibliographyIndex

The Lily and the Thistle: The French Tradition and the Older Literature of Scotland

Introduction I. High Courtly Narrative: The Tale of Love 1. The Kingis Quair 2. Robert Henryson 3. Gavin Douglas 4. William Dunbar 5. John Rolland II. The Comic, Didactic, and Satiric: A Mode of Clerical Provenance 1. Robert Henryson 2. William Dunbar 3. David Lyndsay 4. The Freiris of Berwik 5. King Hart III.Romance 1. Fergus 2. Lancelot of the Laik 3. Golagros and Gawane 4. The Taill of Rauf Coilyear 5. Eger and Grime IV. Scots Renaissance: Soundings 1. Mary Queen of Scots 2. King James VI 3. William Alexander 4. William Drummond of Hawthornden Conclusion Notes Bibliography