Poetic Presence and Illusion: Essays in Critical History and Theory

• 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.
  
  1. Poetic Presence and Illusion I: Renaissance Theory and the Duplicity of Metaphor: 327.
     
  2. Jacopo Mazzoni, Repository of Diverse Critical Traditions or Source of a New One?: 28-38.
     
  3. Shakespeare and the Critic's Idolatry of the Word: 39-54.
     
  4. Fiction, Nature, and Literary Kinds in Johnson's Criticism of Shakespeare: 55-69.
     
  5. "Trying Experiments upon Our Sensibility": The Art of Dogma and Doubt in Eighteenth-Century Literature: 70-91.
     
  6. The Critical Legacy of Matthew Arnold; or, The Strange Brotherhood of T.S. Eliot, I.A. Richards, and Northrop Frye: 92-107.
     
  7. Reconsideration--The New Critics: 108-114.
     
  8. The Theoretical Contributions of Eliseo Vivas: 115-128.
     
  9. The Tragic Vision Twenty Years Later: 129-135.
     II. Critical Theory: 138-322.
     
  10. Poetic Presence and Illusion II: Formalist Theory and the Duplicity of Metaphor: 139168.
      
  11. Literature versus Ecriture: Constructions and Deconstructions in Recent Critical Theory: 169-187.
      
  12. Literature as Illusion, as Metaphor, as Vision: 188-196.
      
  13. Theories about Theories about Theory of Criticism: 197-210.
      
  14. A Scorecard for the Critics: 211-237.
      
  15. Literature, Criticism, and Decision Theory: 238-269.
      
  16. Mediation, Language, and Vision in the Reading of Literature: 270-302.
      
  17. Literary Analysis and Evaluation--and the Ambidextrous Critic: 303-322.
      
  Chapters 5 and 9 appear here for the first time.