Poetic Presence and Illusion : Essays in Critical History and Theory /
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
1979.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Critical history: Poetic presence and illusion I: Renaissance theory and the duplicity of metaphor
- Jacopo Mazzoni, repository of diverse critical traditions or source of a new one?
- Shakespeare and the critic's idolatry of the word
- Fiction, nature, and literary kinds in Johnson's criticism of Shakespeare
- "Trying experiments upon our sensibility": the art of dogma and doubt in eighteenth-century literature
- The critical legacy of Matthew Arnold; or, The strange brotherhood of T.S. Eliot, I.A. Richards, and Northrop Frye
- Reconsideration -the new critics
- The theoretical contributions of Eliseo Vivas
- The tragic vision twenty years after
- 2. Critical theory: Poetic presence and illusion II: formalist theory and the duplicity of metaphor
- Literature vs. Ecriture: constructions and deconstruction in recent critical theory
- Literature as illusion, as metaphor, as vision
- Theories about theories about Theory of criticism
- A scorecard for the critics
- Literature, criticism, and decision theory
- Mediation, language, and vision in the reading of literature
- Literary analysis and evaluation -and the ambidextrous critic.