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Krieger, Murray, 1923-2000.,

Words about Words about Words Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text / Murray Krieger. - 1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) - Book collections on Project MUSE. Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Originally published in 1988

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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ISBN: 9781421430225

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Aufsatzsammlung
Literaturtheorie
Progress in literature.
Literature--Theory, etc.
Criticism.
Canon (Literature)
Progres dans la litterature.
Chefs-d'oeuvre (Litterature)
Critique.
Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Progress in literature.
Canon (Literature)
Criticism.

Subjects--Index Terms: Literature Criticism

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN85 / .K67 1988

Dewey Class. No.: 801/.95