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Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

I   Critical History

1   Poetic Presence and Illusion I: Renaissance Theory and the Duplicity of Metaphor

2   Jacopo Mazzoni, Repository of Diverse Critical Traditions or Source of a New One?

3   Shakespeare and the Critic’s Idolatry of the Word

4   Fiction, Nature, and Literary Kinds in Johnson’s Criticism of Shakespeare

5   “Trying Experiments upon Our Sensibility”: The Art of Dogma and Doubt in Eighteenth-Century Literature

6   The Critical Legacy of Matthew Arnold; or, The Strange Brotherhood of T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards, and Northrop Frye

7   Reconsideration—The New Critics

8   The Theoretical Contributions of Eliseo Vivas

9   The Tragic Vision Twenty Years After

II   Critical Theory

10   Poetic Presence and Illusion II: Formalist Theory and the Duplicity of Metaphor

11   Literature vs. Ecriture: Constructions and Deconstructions in Recent Critical Theory

12   Literature as Illusion, as Metaphor, as Vision

13   Theories about Theories about Theory of Criticism

14   A Scorecard for the Critics

15   Literature, Criticism, and Decision Theory

16   Mediation, Language, and Vision in the Reading of Literature

17   Literary Analysis and Evaluation—and the Ambidextrous Critic

Index of Names

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