Columbia University Lectures: Lectures On Literature (1911)

Columbia University Lectures: Lectures On Literature (1911)   

These lectures by members of the Faculty of Columbia University were delivered, with one exception, during the academic year 1909-1910.  

CONTENTS  INTRODUCTION  LECTURE  PAGE 

I   

APPROACHES TO LITERATURE             

By Brander Matthews, Professor of Dramatic Literature 

ORIENTAL LITERATURES 

II   

SEMITIC LITERATURES      

By Richard J H Gottheil, Professor of Rabbinical Literature and the Semitic Languages 

III   

THE LITERATURE OF INDIA AND PERSIA                      

 By A V W Jackson, Professor of Indo-Iranian Languages 

IV   

CHINESE LITERATURE              

By Friedrich Hirth, Professor of Chinese 

CLASSICAL LITERATURES 

V   

GREEK LITERATURE                 

By Edward Delavan Perry, Jay Professor of Greek 

VI   

LATIN LITERATURE     

By Nelson Glenn McCrea, Professor of Latin 

LITERARY EPOCHS 

VII   

THE MIDDLE AGES                            

 By William Witherle Lawrence, Associate Professor of English 

VIII   

THE RENAISSANCE                

By Jefferson B Fletcher, Professor of Comparative Literature 

IX   

THE CLASSICAL RULE    

By John Erskine, Associate Professor of English 

X   

THE ROMANTIC EMANCIPATION                                

By Curtis Hidden Page, sometime Adjunct Professor of the Romance Languages and Literatures 

MODERN LITERATURES 

XI   

ITALIAN LITERATURE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY                                            

By Carlo L Speranza, Professor of Italian     

SPANISH LITERATURE                                                  

By Henry Alfred Todd, Professor of Romance Philology 

XIII   

ENGLISH LITERATURE       

By Ashley H Thorndike, Professor of English 

XIV   

FRENCH LITERATURE              

By Adolphe Cohn, Professor of the Romance Languages and Literatures 

XV   

GERMAN LITERATURE                    

By Calvin Thomas, Gerhard Professor of the Germanic Languages and Literatures 

 XVI   

RUSSIAN LITERATURE     

By J A Joffe, Lecturer on Slavonic Literature 

XVII   

THE COSMOPOLITAN OUTLOOK                  

By William P Trent, Professor of English Literature 

CONCLUSION 

XVIII   

LITERARY CRITICISM                                                                                                                                                    

By J E Spingarn, Professor of Comparative Literature  

INDEX                                                                      

 
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