The Play and Place of Criticism The Play and Place of Criticism

The Play and Place of Criticism

    • $59.99
    • $59.99

Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2019
December 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
274
Pages
PUBLISHER
Johns Hopkins University Press
SELLER
Johns Hopkins University
SIZE
2.8
MB

More Books Like This

Poetic Presence and Illusion Poetic Presence and Illusion
2019
The Major Victorian Poets: Reconsiderations (Routledge Revivals) The Major Victorian Poets: Reconsiderations (Routledge Revivals)
2013
Scheherazade or the Future of the English Novel Thamyris or Is There a Future for Poetry? Saxo Grammaticus Deucalion or the Future of Literary Criticism Scheherazade or the Future of the English Novel Thamyris or Is There a Future for Poetry? Saxo Grammaticus Deucalion or the Future of Literary Criticism
2013
What is Literature? What is Literature?
2020
Continuities (Routledge Revivals) Continuities (Routledge Revivals)
2014
De Quincey's Literary Criticism (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) De Quincey's Literary Criticism (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
2011

More Books by Murray Krieger

Ekphrasis Ekphrasis
2019
The Tragic Vision The Tragic Vision
2019
The Theory of Criticism The Theory of Criticism
2019
Poetic Presence and Illusion Poetic Presence and Illusion
2019
Words about Words about Words Words about Words about Words
2019
The Institution of Theory The Institution of Theory
2019