Table of Contents
Why comparative literary history? / Mario J. Valdâes -- Concepts of history in the comparative literary history of the Schlegel brothers / Ernst Behler -- Comparatistes sans comparatisme / Roger Bauer -- Irving Babbitt and North American comparative literature / A. Owen Aldridge -- Comparative literary history among the human sciences / Eva Kushner -- Language and the scattered world / Thomas M. Greene -- What are we about? : for a personal criticism / Mary Ann Caws -- Universals of literary history / Ziva Ben-Porat -- History in synchrony : literature and social discourse / Marc Angenot -- The Baroque from the Mediterranean to Northern Europe / Frank J. Warnke -- The individuation of the imaginary universe and the reconstitution of literary periods / Alexandru Dutu -- Romanticism in the literature of the United States / Virgil Nemoianu -- Toward a historical definition of realism / M.A. Szegedy-Maszak -- Antinomies et tensions du Râealisme / Enzo Caramaschi -- About the originality of Belgian symbolism : notes on a literary correspondence / Roland Mortier --