Texts by Murray Kreieger, 1971

Eddie Yeghiayan

• The Classic Vision: The Retreat from Extremity in Modern Literature. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Press, 1971.
  Contents: Preface:ix-xiv.
  Introduction: 1-80.
  

  1. Theoretical: The Tragic Vision and the Classic Vision:3-52.
     
  2. Historical: The "Drab" Vision of Earthly Love:53-80.
     Part I. The Retreat from Extremity Through the Workship of Bloodless Abstractions: 81-145.
     
  3. "Eloisa to Abelard": The Escape from Body or Embrace of Body:83-103.
     
  4. The Cosmetic Cosmos of The Rape of the Lock:105-124.
     
  5. Samuel Johnson: The "Extensive View" of Mankind and the Cost of Acceptance:125-145.
     Part II. The Retreat from Extremity Through the Embrace of the Natural Human Community:147-252.
     
  6. William Wordsworth and the Felix Culpa:149-195.
     
  7. Adam Bede and the Cushioned Fall: The Extenuation of Extremity: 197-220.
     
  8. Postscript: The Naive Classic and the Merely Comic:221-252.
     Part III. The Retreat from Extremity Through the Acceptance of the Human Barnyard:253-309.
     
  9. The Human Inadequacy of Gulliver, Strephon, and Walter Shandy--and the Barnyard Alternative:255-285.
     
  10. The Assumption of the "Burden" of History in All the King's Men:287-309.
      Part IV. The Retreat from Extremity Through an Alternative to Sainthood: 311-362.
      
  11. The Light-ening of the "Burden" of History: Light in August: 313-336.
      
  12. Murder in the Cathedral: The Limits of Drama and the Freedom of Vision: 337- 362.
      
  13. Epilogue: 365-367.
      

• "The Existential Basis of Contextual Criticism." In Hazard Adams, ed., Critical Theory Since Plato, pp. 1224-1231. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.
  See "The Existential Basis of Contextual Criticism"(1966) and The Play and Place of Criticism (1967), Chapter 16, pp. 239-251.

• "Fiction, Nature, and Literary Kinds in Johnson's Criticism of Shakespeare." Eighteenth-Century Studies (Winter 1971), 4(2):184-198.
  See Poetic Presence and Illusion: Essays in Critical History and Theory, Chapter 4, pp. 55-69.

• "Mediation, Language, and Vision in the Reading of Literature." In Hazard Adams, ed., Critical Theory Since Plato, pp. 1231-1249. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.
  See ""Mediation, Language, and Vision in the Reading of Literature" 1969), and Poetic Presence and Illusion: Essays in Critical History and Theory (1979), Chapter 16, pp. 270-302.

• "Reply to Robert Kalmey." Eighteenth-Century Studies (Winter 1971-1972), 5(2):318-320.
  Reply to Robert Kalmey's "Rhetoric, Language, and Structure in Eloisa to Abelard." Eighteenth-Century Studies (1971-1972), 5(2):315-318, which comments on Murray Krieger's "Eloisa to Abelard: The Escape from Body or the Embrace of Body" (1969).

• "Tragedy and the Tragic Vision." In Robert W. Corrigan, ed., Tragedy: A Critical Anthology, pp. 762-775. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.
  See Tragedy and the Tragic Vision (1960). Chapter 1, pp. 1-21, and "Tragedy and the Tragic Vision (1958).

• "Die Tragödie und die Tragische Schweise." In Volkmar Sander, ed., Tragik und Tragödie, pp. 279-302. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1971.
  Translation into German by Josefa Nünning of "Tragedy and the Tragic Vision" (1958).