Part 1 German criticism 1900-1950: Thomas Mann; German symbolism - Friedrich Gundolf, Ernst Bertram, Max Kommerell, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rudolf Kassner, Rudolf Borchart, Hermann Broch; the journalist critics - Alfred Kerr, Friedrich Sieberg, Kasimir Edschmid and expressionism, three thinkers, Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav, Jung, Martin Heidegger; the scholar-critics in the Romance literatures - Karl Vossler, Ernst Robert Curtius, Erich Auerbach, Leo Spitzer; literature - Oskar, Josef Nadler, Wolfgang Kayser, Emil Staiger; the Marxist critics - Alfred Doblin, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Lukacs. Part 2 Russian criticism 1900-1950: a backward glance - Nikolay Mikhailovsky, Konstantin Leontiev, Vasily Rozanov, Lev Shestov; futurism; the poets - Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Andre Bely, Aleksandr Blok, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Osip Mandelstam; the marxists, literary criticism under Lenin and Stalin - Georgy Plekhanov, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Maxim Gorky, Leon Trotsky, Valerian Pereverzev; literary history - writing; Russian Formalism - Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum, Yury Tynyanov, Boris Tomashevsky, D.S. Mirsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roman Jakobson. Part 3 Eastern European criticism 1900-1950: Poland - Roman Ingarden, Czechoslovakia - modern Czech criticism and literary scholarship, Jan Mukarovsky - the literary theory and aesthetics of the Prague School.
