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The Theory of Criticism (Record no. 25605)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781421430232
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Canceled/invalid ISBN 1421430231
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Canceled/invalid ISBN 9781421431277
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)1120080103
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency MdBmJHUP
Transcribing agency MdBmJHUP
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PN81
Item number .K714 2019
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Krieger, Murray,
Dates associated with a name 1923-2000,
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Theory of Criticism
Remainder of title A Tradition and Its System /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Murray Krieger.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement Open access edition.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Project Muse,
264 #3 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Project MUSE,
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 online resource (unpaged)
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Hopkins open publishing encore editions
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Originally published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1976].
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
506 0# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE
Terms governing access Open Access
Standardized terminology for access restriction Unrestricted online access
Source of term star
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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 multidimensionality of the poetic world through the lens of Western poetics. His work clearly addresses itself to post-New Critical questions: how to preserve the literary object as a thing to be perceived, valued, and enjoyed and yet to account for its presence in, and interaction with, our culture as a whole, always in danger of being dissolved into man's language-making and -forming activity in general. Our awareness of the poem as object must be modified by our awareness that it is an "intentional" object. Krieger develops his balanced vision in three parts. The first part defines the problem and defends the very activity of theorizing both in its own terms and in terms of the critic's function throughout the history of Western criticism. By asking at the outset whether criticism is vain or valuable, Krieger already confronts the basic tension between system and world and the need to account for both. By creating a heuristic system that examines the possibility of form, the critic serves also the world of history and thought as a whole. The second part pursues that history from the classical encounter with mimesis in Greek thought to the Romantic and post-Romantic elevation of consciousness as a main criterion of poetic art. Defining a "humanistic aesthetic" as it has been viewed since Aristotle, the author shows how, during and after the eighteenth century, form was opened up under the impact of a Kantian and post-Kantian view, epitomized finally by Coleridge's imagination and its consequences for recent theorists. The third part deals with the image of the world struggling against its enclosure within a poetic context. It expands our view of metaphor as a reflection of the dual nature of poetic language, simultaneously locked into the poem and referring to history and nature outside. Our reading of the poem, Krieger concludes, must be double: we must see the poem as a linear and chronological sequence reflecting real life, and we must read it as a circular, imitative, mutually implicative mode.
588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE
Source of description note Description based on print version record.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Criticism.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Literature
General subdivision History and criticism
-- Theory, etc.
655 #0 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
Source of term local
710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Project Muse,
Relator term distributor.
776 18 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Relationship information Print version:
International Standard Book Number 1421431270
-- 9781421431277
710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Project Muse.
Relator term distributor
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Hopkins open publishing encore editions.
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Book collections on Project MUSE.
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Public note Full text available:
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/book/67843/">https://muse.jhu.edu/book/67843/</a>
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Date last seen Uniform Resource Identifier Price effective from Koha item type
          Digital Library Digital Library Online Access 27.01.2021   PN81 .K714 2019 27.01.2021 https://muse.jhu.edu/book/67843/ 27.01.2021 eBook

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