The essays brought together in this volume represent some of the
research activities carried on in three departments of the Faculty of Humanities
at the Hebrew University – the Department of Comparative Literature, the
Department of English, and the Department of Romance Studies. The essays seem
to fall into a pattern, which outlines some of the main directions of development
in literature from the Renaissance to modern times, as it evolved in the West
in Europe and on the two American continents.
