Poetic Presence and Illusion: Essays in Critical
History and Theory. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
Contents:
Preface:xi-xv.
I. Critical History: 1-135.
- Poetic Presence and Illusion I: Renaissance Theory and the Duplicity
of Metaphor: 327.
- Jacopo Mazzoni, Repository of Diverse Critical Traditions or Source of
a New One?: 28-38.
- Shakespeare and the Critic's Idolatry of the Word: 39-54.
- Fiction, Nature, and Literary Kinds in Johnson's Criticism of
Shakespeare: 55-69.
- "Trying Experiments upon Our Sensibility": The Art of Dogma and Doubt
in Eighteenth-Century Literature: 70-91.
- The Critical Legacy of Matthew Arnold; or, The Strange Brotherhood of
T.S. Eliot, I.A. Richards, and Northrop Frye: 92-107.
- Reconsideration--The New Critics: 108-114.
- The Theoretical Contributions of Eliseo Vivas: 115-128.
-
The Tragic Vision Twenty Years Later: 129-135.
II. Critical Theory: 138-322.
- Poetic Presence and Illusion II: Formalist Theory and the Duplicity of
Metaphor: 139168.
- Literature versus Ecriture:
Constructions and Deconstructions in Recent Critical Theory: 169-187.
- Literature as Illusion, as Metaphor, as Vision: 188-196.
- Theories about Theories about Theory of Criticism: 197-210.
- A Scorecard for the Critics: 211-237.
- Literature, Criticism, and Decision Theory: 238-269.
- Mediation, Language, and Vision in the Reading of Literature: 270-302.
- Literary Analysis and Evaluation--and the Ambidextrous Critic: 303-322.
Chapters 5 and 9 appear here for the first time.
"Poetic Presence and Illusion II:
Renaissance Theory and the Duplicity of Metaphor."
Critical Inquiry
(Summer 1979), 5(4):597-619.
"Poetic Presence and Illusion I:
Renaissance Theory and the Duplicity of Metaphor."
Boundary 2 (Fall 1979), 8(1):95-121.
For diagrams inadvertently excluded
from this article see "Errata," Boundary 2 (Winter
1980), 8(2):367-368, and Poetic Presence
and Illusion (1979), Chapter 10, pp. 139-168.
"The Recent Revolution in Theory and the Survival of the
Literary Disciplines." In The State of the Discipline,
1970s-1980s, pp. 27-34. New York: Association of Departments of English, 1979.
A special
issue of the ADE [Association of Departments of English]
Bulletin (September-November 1979), 62.
"Reply to Norman Friedman." Comparative
Literature Studies (September 1979), 16(3): 262-264.
See review by Norman Friedman of Theory of Criticism: A Tradition and Its System
(1976)
in Comparative Literature Studies (June 1979),
16(2):165-167.