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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Krieger, Murray, 1923-2000 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Edition:Open access edition.
Series:Hopkins open publishing encore editions.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.