The challenge of comparative literature and other addresses - Friederich, Werner P. 1905-1993 (University of North Carolina Press, 1970)
Contents: pt. 1. Comparative Literature in the United States -- The First Ten Years of our Comparative Literature Section in the Modern Language Association of America -- Our Common Purpose -- Great Books versus "World" Literature -- The Challenge of Comparative Literature -- On the Humanizing Influence of Literature. pt. 2. The Cosmopolitanism and Other Traits of Swiss Literature -- Late Renaissance, Baroque or Counter-Reformation? -- German Baroque Tragedy in the Perspective of Greek and French Classical Drama -- Some German Contributions to European Literature -- The Political Failure of the German Late Romanticists -- The Changing Attitude of American Authors towards Europe