Year Book Of Comparative Criticism

The essays in this volume represent a cross-section of the most important sociological considerations in literary criticism, literary theory, and literary history. Included are studies in the dialects of the literary imagination, literature and its reading public, technology and literature, morals and society, sociological aspects in literary evaluations, the possibilities of relating sociological literary theory with phenomenological literary theory and comprehensive critical surveys of recent accomplishments of literary criticism in the treatment of literary-sociological problems.