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020			_a9781421430232
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020			_z9781421431277
035			_a(OCoLC)1120080103
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050		4	_aPN81 _b.K714 2019
100	1		_aKrieger, Murray, _d1923-2000, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aThe Theory of Criticism _bA Tradition and Its System / _cMurray Krieger.
250			_aOpen access edition.
264		1	_bProject Muse,
264		3	_bProject MUSE,
300			_a1 online resource (unpaged)
490	0		_aHopkins open publishing encore editions
500			_aOriginally published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1976].
500			_aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe 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		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aRepresenting 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			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aCriticism.
650		0	_aLiterature _xHistory and criticism _xTheory, etc.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse, _edistributor.
776	1	8	_iPrint version: _z1421431270 _z9781421431277
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aHopkins open publishing encore editions.
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/67843/
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