In an earlier book Professor Krieger discussed the tragic vision as the confrontation with extremity--the writer's commitment to a master metaphor even as he acknowledges the incompleteness of that metaphor. The term -classic- is used here to indicate -the sense of restraint, of acceptance, of coming to terms with limitations self-imposed--as well as the awareness of the alternative one rejects in turning away from self-indulgence.- The writer is thus viewed as one who accepts the common use of language while he endeavors to defy it through metaphor, one who accepts classically the common...
In an earlier book Professor Krieger discussed the tragic vision as the confrontation with extremity--the writer's commitment to a master metaphor ...
One of the more important and original collections of theoretical essays in the field. . . . The issues it addresses are no less pertinent now than they were in 1987; they seem, indeed, to be of perennial importance. -- Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley
One of the more important and original collections of theoretical essays in the field. . . . The issues it addresses are no less pertinent now than th...
This collection of essays in and on recent critical theory and its backgrounds attempts to clarify what is probably one of the most complex situations in the history of literary criticism. The classifier of methodologies can look back only with nostalgia at the simplicity of his problems with the limited warfare among New Critics, biographical and historical scholars, neo-humanists, neo-Aristotelians, and old-style Freudians and Marxists. Much more confusing these days are the challenges not only to critical method but to the very assumption that there is an object or language for criticism....
This collection of essays in and on recent critical theory and its backgrounds attempts to clarify what is probably one of the most complex situations...
The New Apologists for Poetry was first published in 1956. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
The author's purpose is to clear the ground for a systematic aesthetics of poetry consistent with the insights of our most influential contemporary literary critics. The book is concerned with those of the so-called "new critics" who are trying to answer the need, forced on them by historical and cultural pressures, to justify...
The New Apologists for Poetry was first published in 1956. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable book...
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.
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Mr. Krieger attempts to extract a total mythology from Shakespeare's Sonnets and to use this mythology in their interpretation. Engaged in d...
