{"product_id":"poetic-presence-and-illusion-9781421431284","title":"Poetic Presence and Illusion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOrignally 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 Pres\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Critical History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Poetic Presence and Illusion I: Renaissance Theory and the Duplicity of Metaphor \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Jacopo Mazzoni, Repository of Diverse Critical Traditions or Source of a New One? \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Shakespeare and the Critic's Idolatry of the Word\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Fiction, Nature, and Literary Kinds in Johnson's Criticism of Shakespeare \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. \"Trying Experiments upon Our Sensibility\": The Art of Dogma and Doubt in Eighteenth-Century Literature \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. The Critical Legacy of Matthew Arnold; or, The Strange Brotherhood of T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards, and Northrop Frye \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Reconsideration-The New Critics \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The Theoretical Contributions of Eliseo Vivas \u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. \u003ci\u003eThe Tragic Vision\u003c\/i\u003e Twenty Years After \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Critical Theory \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e10. Poetic Presence and Illusion II: Formalist Theory and the Duplicity of Metaphor\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Literature vs. \u003ci\u003eEcriture\u003c\/i\u003e: Constructions and Deconstructions in Recent Critical Theory\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. Literature as Illusion, as Metaphor, as Vision\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Theories about Theories about \u003ci\u003eTheory of Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter \u003c\/i\u003e14. A Scorecard for the Critics\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. Literature, Criticism, and Decision Theory\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. Mediation, Language, and Vision in the Reading of Literature\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17. Literary Analysis and Evaluation-and the Ambidextrous Critic\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Names\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408130842967,"sku":"9781421431284","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421431284.jpg?v=1730501697","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/poetic-presence-and-illusion-9781421431284","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}