Words about Words about Words : Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text / / Murray Krieger.
Originally published in 1987. In Words about Words about Words, Murray Krieger advances his ongoing dialogue with the rich diversity of contemporary literary theory and elaborates on his own position as it grows out of an opposing relation to much of current criticism. Krieger examines the kinds of...
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| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 292 pages ) |
| Notes: | Originally published in 1988 |
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Table of Contents:
- Theory and institutions: Critical movements and academic structures. Words about words about words: theory, criticism, and the literary text ; The arts and the idea of progress ; From theory to thematics: The ideological underside of recent theory ; Literary invention, critical fashion, and the impulse to theoretical change: "Or whether revolution be the same" ; A meditation on a critical theory institute
- Critical positions: Self-definition and other definitions. An apology for poetics ; A colloquy on "An apology for poetics" ; The literary privilege of evaluation ; An E.H. Gombrich retrospective: The ambiguities of representation and illusion ; "Both sides of now"
- Reconsiderations of special texts for special reasons. Presentation and representation in the Renaissance lyric: The net of words and the escape of the gods ; A humanity in the humanities: Literature among the discourses ; The conversion from history to Utopia in Shakespeare's Sonnets ; Orpheus mit Gluck: The deceiving gratific(a)tions of presence ; "A waking dream": The symbolic alternative to allegory.