Words about Words about Words : Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text / Murray Krieger.

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Main Author: Krieger, Murray, 1923-2000 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
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Table of Contents:
  • Theory and institutions: Critical movements and academic structures. Words about words about words: theory, criticism, and the literary text ; The arts and the idea of progress ; From theory to thematics: The ideological underside of recent theory ; Literary invention, critical fashion, and the impulse to theoretical change: "Or whether revolution be the same" ; A meditation on a critical theory institute
  • Critical positions: Self-definition and other definitions. An apology for poetics ; A colloquy on "An apology for poetics" ; The literary privilege of evaluation ; An E.H. Gombrich retrospective: The ambiguities of representation and illusion ; "Both sides of now"
  • Reconsiderations of special texts for special reasons. Presentation and representation in the Renaissance lyric: The net of words and the escape of the gods ; A humanity in the humanities: Literature among the discourses ; The conversion from history to Utopia in Shakespeare's Sonnets ; Orpheus mit Gluck: The deceiving gratific(a)tions of presence ; "A waking dream": The symbolic alternative to allegory.