First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

"The author explores this tradition in depth and defines it with a breadth of vision, a dynamic vigor and freedom rarely paralleled today....His method, flexible, generous ...

Harry Levin--one of America's major literary critics--offers a brilliant and original study of the whole world of comedy, concentrating on playwrights through the centuries ...

Harry Levin's Memories of the Moderns, originally published by New Directions in 1980, is now presented in New Directions Paperbook format. This gathering of prose pieces ...

Sent to Paris by a wealthy matron to retrieve her son, Strether becomes sidetracked by intriguing complications

15 lectures on novelists and literature, ranging from broad problems of critical theory and esthetic formulation to specific analyses of forms and texts.