This is the latest volume of the critically acclaimed series entitled Yearbook of Comparative Criticism. The series devoted to the study of literature based on two assumptions: that literature is an expression of the culture in which it is written, and that the study of literature involves value-judgments.
The volume includes contributions from: George Boas (U.S.A), David Daiches (Great Britain), Northrop Frye (Canada), Walter Hinderer (U.S.A.), E.D. Hirsch, Jr. (U.S.A), Roman Ingarden (Poland), Mario Jacobi (Switzerland), Leonard Manheim (U.S.A), Walter Mueller-Seidel (Germany), Howard Lee Nostrand (U.S.A), Stephen R. Pepper (U.S.A), André Preau (France), Emil Staiger (Switzerland), Stanley R. Townsend (U.S.A), Wladimir Weidlé (France).