02577oam 22004574a 450 991052467910332120231120185408.01-4214-3128-9(CKB)4100000010460767(OCoLC)1117489296(MdBmJHUP)muse78134(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88844(EXLCZ)99410000001046076720790329d1979 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPoetic Presence and IllusionEssays in Critical History and Theory /Murray KriegerJohns Hopkins University Press2019Baltimore :Johns Hopkins University Press,1979.©1979.1 online resource (xviii, 326 p. :)ill. ;1-4214-3129-7 1-4214-3024-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Originally published in 1979. Poetic Presence and Illusion brings together Krieger's speculation on literature and its effect on the reader. The poem, Krieger argues, is an illusionary presence and an ever-present illusion. It exists for the reader, like a drama before an audience, only within an illusionary context. But the illusion should not be taken lightly as a false substitute for reality. It is itself a real and positive force: it is what we see and, as such, is constitutive of our reality, even if our critical faculty de-constitutes that reality by viewing it as no more than an illusion. The coupling of poetic presence and poetic illusion serves to describe the relationship between poetry as metaphor and the reader's sense of personal and poetic reality. Krieger examines the workings of selected Renaissance and contemporary poems with regard to this dual nature and evaluates the work of literary critics (himself included) who have been concerned with this doubleness. Poetic Presence and Illusion allows readers who have read Krieger's earlier work to understand the development of his critical position.CriticismLiteratureHistory and criticismTheory, etcLiterary theoryCriticism.LiteratureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.801/.951Krieger Murray1923-202734MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910524679103321Poetic Presence and Illusion2605804UNINA