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Author:   Murray Krieger
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight:   0.431kg
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9781421431246

ISBN 10:   1421431246
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   26 January 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Preface Part I. Theory and Institutions: Critical Movements and Academic Structures Chapter 1. Words about Words about Words: Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text Chapter 2. The Arts and the Idea of Progress Chapter 3. From Theory to Thematics: The Ideological Underside of Recent Theory Chapter 4. Literary Invention, Critical Fashion, and the Impulse to Theoretical Change: ""Or Whether Revolution Be the Same"" Chapter 5. A Meditation on a Critical Theory Institute Part II. Critical Positions: Self-definition and Other Definitions Chapter 6. An Apology for Poetics Chapter 7. A Colloquy on ""An Apology for Poetics"" Chapter 8. The Literary Privilege of Evaluation Chapter 9. An E.H. Gombrich Retrospective: The Ambiguities of Representation and Illusion Chapter 10. ""Both Sides Now"" Part III. Reconsideration of Special Texts jar Special Reasons Chapter 11. Presentation and Repres entation in the Renaissance Lyric: The Net of Words and the Escape of the Gods Chapter 12. A Humanity in the Humanities: Literature among the Discourses Chapter 13. The Conversion from History to Utopia in Shakespeare's Sonnets Chapter 14. Orpheus mit Gluck: The Deceiving Gratific(a)tions of Presence Chapter 15. ""A Waking Dream"": The Symbolic Alternative to Allegory Index"

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Murray Krieger is University Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He was founding director and is currently an honorary senior fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory. He is the author of many books, among them the two-volume Visions of Extremity in Modern Literature, comprising The Tragic Vision and The Classic Vision. These and other of his books are available from Johns Hopkins University Press.

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