{"product_id":"words-about-words-about-words-9781421431246","title":"Words about Words about Words","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1987. In Words about Words about Words, Murray Krieger advances his ongoing dialogue with the rich diversity of contemporary literary theory and elaborates on his own position as it grows out of an opposing relation to much of current criticism. Krieger examines the kinds of ideologies and ontologies smuggled into literary theory that purports to be anti-ideological and anti-ontological. He explores the extent to which critical fashions dictate the development of theory and the reasons why particular theories exclude certain kinds of literary works in favor of others. Under such circumstances, Krieger asks, What becomes of the critic's task of evaluation? Further, what is the relation of the idea of progress to criticism and the arts, and what is the effect of these notions on cultural and intellectual institutions? He seeks an alternative to the deterministic tendencies of the new historicism in viewing the relations of literature and literary criticism to soci\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Theory and Institutions: Critical Movements and Academic Structures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Words about Words about Words: Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Arts and the Idea of Progress \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. From Theory to Thematics: The Ideological Underside of Recent Theory\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Literary Invention, Critical Fashion, and the Impulse to Theoretical Change: \"Or Whether Revolution Be the Same\" \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. A Meditation on a Critical Theory Institute \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Critical Positions: Self-definition and Other Definitions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. An Apology for Poetics\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. A Colloquy on \"An Apology for Poetics\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The Literary Privilege of Evaluation \u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. An E.H. Gombrich Retrospective: The Ambiguities of Representation and Illusion \u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. \"Both Sides Now\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Reconsideration of Special Texts jar Special Reasons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Presentation and Repres entation in the Renaissance Lyric: The Net of Words and the Escape of the Gods \u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. A Humanity in the Humanities: Literature among the Discourses \u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. The Conversion from History to Utopia in Shakespeare's Sonnets \u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Orpheus mit Gluck: The Deceiving Gratific(a)tions of Presence \u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. \"A Waking Dream\": The Symbolic\u003cbr\u003eAlternative to Allegory \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408130777431,"sku":"9781421431246","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421431246.jpg?v=1730501697","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/words-about-words-about-words-9781421431246","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}