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The classic vision : the retreat from extremity in modern literature
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ISBN: 0801813123 Year: 1971 Publisher: Baltimore London Johns Hopkins Press

Visions of extremity in modern literature
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ISBN: 0801815509 0801815517 Year: 1973 Publisher: Baltimore

Theory of criticism : a tradition and its system
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ISBN: 0801818257 9780801818257 Year: 1976 Publisher: Baltimore (Md.): Johns Hopkins University press,

A reopening of closure, organicism against itself
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ISBN: 0231070063 Year: 1989 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press

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Poetic presence and illusion: essays in critical history and theory
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ISBN: 0801821991 9780801821998 Year: 1979 Publisher: Baltimore (Md.): Johns Hopkins University press,


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The Aims of representation : subject, text, history
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ISBN: 0231065841 Year: 1987 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,


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A window to criticism: : Shakespeare's Sonnets and modern poetics
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ISBN: 0691061386 0691651515 1400879515 0691624992 9780691061382 Year: 1974 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): University press,

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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 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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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The Play and Place of Criticism
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ISBN: 1421431173 1421430185 1421431165 Year: 2019 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Originally published in 1967. In The Play and Place of Criticism, Professor Krieger addresses basic questions related to criticism in the title essay that forms the introduction to this collection and that constitutes a considered statement of his "contextualist" position. In agreement with Spitzer, Krieger believes that the critic has a valuable part to play in relating the "new words" of the individual poem to the "old words" of the language. He goes further in identifying the role of the critic as essentially rhapsodic, a sharing-in and an expression of the poet's "fine frenzy," which, when it succeeds, transports the critic beyond words and dooms his analytical efforts to failure. Thus, while defending the critic's right to exercise "the free play of the mind" in approaching his subject, the author insists that the critic recognize his subordinate "place" in performing his act of mediation. Elsewhere in the volume Krieger uses other terms and metaphors to explore similar problems revolving around the mediate and the immediate in poetry and criticism. In calling for a poetry of "still movement," for example, he examines both the opposition and the union of temporal with spatial or plastically formal elements, of the dynamically empirical with the statically archetypal. Having defined his critical position in these ways, Krieger relates it to other schools of criticism and applies its methods to the analysis of works by Shakespeare, Pope, Arnold, Hawthorne, and others.


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Poetic Presence and Illusion : Essays in Critical History and Theory
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ISBN: 1421431289 142143024X 1421431297 Year: 2019 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Originally published in 1979. Poetic Presence and Illusion brings together Krieger's speculation on literature and its effect on the reader. The poem, Krieger argues, is an illusionary presence and an ever-present illusion. It exists for the reader, like a drama before an audience, only within an illusionary context. But the illusion should not be taken lightly as a false substitute for reality. It is itself a real and positive force: it is what we see and, as such, is constitutive of our reality, even if our critical faculty de-constitutes that reality by viewing it as no more than an illusion. The coupling of poetic presence and poetic illusion serves to describe the relationship between poetry as metaphor and the reader's sense of personal and poetic reality. Krieger examines the workings of selected Renaissance and contemporary poems with regard to this dual nature and evaluates the work of literary critics (himself included) who have been concerned with this doubleness. Poetic Presence and Illusion allows readers who have read Krieger's earlier work to understand the development of his critical position.


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The Institution of Theory
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ISBN: 142143122X 1421430215 1421431238 Year: 2019 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Originally published in 1994. In The Institution of Theory, Murray Krieger examines, at once sympathetically and critically, the process by which theory has become institutionalized in the American academy and the consequences of theory as an academic institution. He traces the transformation of literary theory into critical theory and relates it to changes in the place of literature within questions about discourse at large. And he faces the costs as well as the gains of the recent denial of privilege to the literary. To support his view of the issues at stake in current theoretical debates, Krieger surveys both the history of American criticism and the general history of literary theory in the West. He sees divisions in each of them that foreshadow the current debates: in the first a conflict between the social and the aesthetic functions of literature, and in the second a conflict between the treatment of literature as a reflection of a culture's ideology and the treatment of literature as a subversion of that ideology. To what extent, he asks, are our debates new and to what extent are they merely refashioned versions of those we have always had?

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