Texts by Murray Krieger, 1992

Eddie Yeghiayan

• "The Arts and the Idea of Progress." [In Chinese] In Fengzhen Wang, ed., Selected Works of Current Western Literary Criticism, pp. 352-372. Beijing: Li Jiang Press, 1992.

  Translation into Chinese of "The Arts and the Idea of Progress" (1982).

• Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign. Emblems by Joan Krieger. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
  Contents:
  Foreword: Of Shields:xiii-xvii.
  

  1. Picture and Word, Space and Time: The Exhilaration and Exasperation--of Ekphrasis as a Subject:1-28.
     
  2. Representation as Illusion: Dramatic Representation and the Natural-Sign Aesthetic:31-64.
     
  3. Representation as Enargeia I: Verbal Representation and the Natural-Sign Aesthetic:67-90.
     
  4. Representation as Enargeia II: Nature's Transcendence of the Natural Sign:93-112.
     
  5. The Verbal Emblem I: The Renaissance:115-142.
     
  6. Language as Aesthetic Material:145-195.
     
  7. The Verbal Emblem II: From Romanticism to Modernism:197-231.
     
  8. A Postmodern Reprospect: Semiotic Desire, Repression in the Name of Nature, and a Space for the Ekphrastic:233-261.
     
  Appendix: Ekphrasis and the Still Movement of Poetry; or Laokoön Revisited (1967):263-288.

  See "Poetry as Art, Language as Aesthetic Medium" (1987), "Representation in Words and in Drama: The Illusion of the Natural Sign" (1990), and "The Semiotic Desire for the Natural Sign: Poetic Uses and Political Abuses" (1990).

• "Literary Invention and the Impulse to Theoretical Change: 'Or Whether Revolution Be the Same'." In Ralph Cohen, ed., Studies in Historical Change pp. 179-206. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992.

  See "Literary Invention and the Impulse to Theoretical Change: 'Or Whether Revolution Be the Same'"(1986).
  See Words about Words about Words (1988), Chapter 4, pp. 64-89.