Comparative Criticism addresses itself to the questions of literary theory and criticism. This new volume looks at the Humanist Tradition in the Twentieth Century and articles will The Book in the Totalitarian Context; Lorenzo Valla and Changing Perceptions of Renaissance Humanism; Hitler's Berlin; Civilization and an anthropological approach; Walter Pater to Adrian psychoanalysis and humanism; Art History and Humanist Tradition in the Stefan George Circle.