ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1960
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani
Vrsta: Teorija književnosti

MEYER HOWARD ABRAMS

THE MIRROR AND THE LAMP - Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition

Izdavač - Oxford University Press, London

Godina - 1960

406 strana

20 cm

Povez - Broširan

Stanje - Kao na slici, tekst bez podvlačenja



SADRŽAJ:
Preface

I. INTRODUCTION: ORIENTATION OF CRITICAL THEORIES
Some Co-ordinates of Art Criticism
Mimetic Theories
Pragmatic Theories
Expressive Theories
Objective Theories

II. IMITATION AND THE MIRROR
Art Is Like a Mirror
The Objects of Imitation: the Empirical Ideal
The Transcendental Ideal

III. ROMANTIC ANALOGUES OF ART AND MIND
Metaphors of Expression
Emotion and the Objects of Poetry
Changing Metaphors of Mind

IV. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EXPRESSIVE THEORY OF POETRY AND ART
Si vis me flere
Longinus and the Longinians
Primitive Language and Primitive Poetry
The Lyric as Poetic Norm
Expressive Theory in Germany: Ut Musica Poesis
Wordsworth, Blair, and The Enquirer
Expressive Theory and Expressive Practice

V. VARIETIES OF ROMANTIC THEORY: WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE
Wordsworth and the Eighteenth Century
Coleridge on Poems, Poetry, and Poets

VI. VARIETIES OF ROMANTIC THEORY: SHELLEY, HAZLITT, KEBLE, AND OTHERS
Shelley and Romantic Platonism
Longinus, Hazlitt, Keats, and the Criterion of Intensity
Poetry as Catharsis: John Keble and Others
The Semantics of Expressive Language: Alexander Smith

VII. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LITERARY INVENTION: MECHANICAL AND ORGANIC THEORIES
The Mechanical Theory of Literary Invention
iColeridge`s Mechanical Fancy and Organic Imagination
The Associative Imagination in the Romantic Period

VIII. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LITERARY INVENTION: UNCONSCIOUS GENIUS AND ORGANIC GROWTH, 184
Natural Genius, Inspiration, and Grace, 187
Natural Genius and Natural Growth in Eighteenth-Century England
German Theories of Vegetable Genius
Unconscious Invention in English Criticism
Coleridge and the Aesthetics of Organism

IX. LITERATURE AS A REVELATION OF PERSONALITY
Style and the Man
Subjective and Objective, and Romantic Polysemism
Subjective and Objective in English Theory
The Paradox of Shakespeare
Milton, Satan, and Eve
The Key to Homer`s Heart

X. THE CRITERION OF TRUTH TO NATURE: ROMANCE, MYTH, AND METAPHOR
Truth and the Poetic Marvelous
The Logic of Deviation from Empirical Truth
The Poem as Heterocosm
Poetic Truth and Metaphor
Wordsworth and Coleridge on Personification and Myth

XI. SCIENCE AND POETRY IN ROMANTIC CRITICISM
Positivism vs. Poetry
Newton`s Rainbow and the Poet`s
Poetic Truth and Sincerity
Poetry as neither True nor False
The Use of Romantic Poetry

Notes
Index


`One of the five `works published within the last thirty years which in the opinion of representative scholars and critics have contributed most to the understanding of literature.` (Lewis Leary, Contemporary Literary Scholarship)

`Mr.. Abrams-has written a remarkable book on the history of criticism, the most distinguished contribution of American scholar ship in that field since the work of J. E. Spingarn....` (René Wellek, Comparative Literature)

`The book is so rich in thought that it is invaluable for students of the romantic movement and indeed of the whole theory of criticism. I regard it as one of the most distinguished achievements of American literary scholarship of our day.` (Thomas M. Raysor, Modern Philology)

With this book, M. H. Abrams has given us a remarkable study. admirably conceived and executed, a book of quite exceptional and no doubt lasting significance for a number of fields -- for the history of ideas and comparative literature as well as for English literary history, criticism and aesthetics.` (Harry Bergholz, Modern Language Journal)`



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