Problems of Literary Evaluation

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).