Window to Criticism : : Shakespeare's Sonnets & Modern Poetics / / Murray Krieger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Krieger, Murray,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1964
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 2415
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)

Mr. Krieger attempts to extract a total mythology from Shakespeare's Sonnets and to use this mythology in their interpretation. Engaged in developing a poetics which will create a daring and inclusive view of poetry, he uses the metaphor of window and mirror to explore the implications of moving into a poem's closed context and outward to history and existence.Originally published in 1964.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. The Mirror as Window in Recent Literary Theory -- 1. The Resort to "Miracle" in Recent Poetics -- 2. Contextualism and Its Alternatives -- II. The Mirror as Window in Shakespeare's Sonnets -- Introductory -- 1. The Mirror of Narcissus and the Magical Mirror of Love -- 2. Truth vs. Troth: The Worms of the Vile, Wise World -- 3. State, Property, and the Politics of Reason -- 4. The Miracle of Love's Eschatology and Incarnation -- III. The Power of Poetic Effigy -- The Power of Poetic Effigy -- Index -- Index of Sonnets