Frontmatter -- Preface -- CONTENTS -- New Frontiers in the Humanities -- Art as Knowledge -- Contexts of the Classical -- The Tradition of Tradition -- What is Realism? -- The Example of Cervantes -- Don Quixote and Moby-Dick -- Balzac and Proust -- Joyce's Sentimental Journey through France and Italy -- Observations on the Style of Ernest Hemingway -- Society as Its Own Historian -- Symbolism and Fiction -- The War of Words in English Poetry -- A Gallery of Mirrors -- Criticism in Crisis -- James Joyce et l'Idèe de Littèrature Mondiale -- Index