Synopses & Reviews
This is a selection of fifteen critical essays by Leo Spitzer (1887-1960), six appearing in English for the first time. Drawn from different stages of Spitzer's long career, the essays trace the development of his thought and method and demonstrate the immense range of his interests - the various genres on which he wrote and the historical periods from the Middle Ages to the present that he commanded.
Table of Contents
Linguistics and literary history (1948) -- Pseudo-objective motivation in Charles-Louis Philippe (1923) -- Two essays on Gâongora's Soledades -- The Spanish Baroque (1944) -- Three essays on Dante's Commedia -- Geistesgeschichte vs. History of ideas as applied to Hitlerism (1944) -- Linguistic perspectivism in the Don Quijote (1948) -- Interpretation of an ode by Paul Claudel (1948) -- American advertising explained as popular art (1949) -- Apropos of La vie de Marianne (1953) -- A central theme and its structural equivalent in Lope's Fuenteovejuna (1955) -- Development of a method (1960)