The Theory of Criticism : A Tradition and Its System /
Representing years of critical reflection, The Theory of Criticism attempts to construct a poetics of "presence." Within a wide range of critical terminology, Murray Krieger has sought to create a new vision. In language that is passionate and often dramatic, he looks at the multidimension...
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Edition: | Open access edition. |
| Series: | Hopkins open publishing encore editions.
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Table of Contents:
- The problem: the limits and capacities of critical theory
- The vanity of theory and its value
- Preliminary questions and suggested answers
- The critic as person and persona
- The humanistic theoretical tradition
- The deceptive opposition between mimetic and expressive theories
- Form and the humanistic aesthetic
- Fiction, history, and empirical reality: the hourglass and the sands of time
- A systematic extension
- The aesthetic as the anthropological: the breath of the word and the weight of the world
- Poetics reconstructed: the presence of the poem.