Poetic presence and illusion : essays in critical history and theory

Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Critical HistoryChapter 1. Poetic Presence and Illusion I: Renaissance Theory and the Duplicity of Metaphor Chapter 2. Jacopo Mazzoni, Repository of Diverse Critical Traditions or Source of a New One? Chapter 3. Shakespeare and the Critic's Idolatry of the WordChapter 4. Fiction, Nature, and Literary Kinds in Johnson's Criticism of Shakespeare Chapter 5. "Trying Experiments upon Our Sensibility": The Art of Dogma and Doubt in Eighteenth-Century Literature Chapter 6. The Critical Legacy of Matthew Arnold; or, The Strange Brotherhood of T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards, and Northrop Frye Chapter 7. Reconsideration-The New Critics Chapter 8. The Theoretical Contributions of Eliseo Vivas Chapter 9. The Tragic Vision Twenty Years After Part II. Critical Theory Chapter 10. Poetic Presence and Illusion II: Formalist Theory and the Duplicity of MetaphorChapter 11. Literature vs. Ecriture: Constructions and Deconstructions in Recent Critical TheoryChapter 12. Literature as Illusion, as Metaphor, as VisionChapter 13. Theories about Theories about Theory of CriticismChapter 14. A Scorecard for the CriticsChapter 15. Literature, Criticism, and Decision TheoryChapter 16. Mediation, Language, and Vision in the Reading of LiteratureChapter 17. Literary Analysis and Evaluation-and the Ambidextrous CriticIndex of Names