03141cam a2200589 4500 classicvisionret00krie CaSfIA 20230525155132.0 cr|||| 720207s1971 mdu b 001 0 eng 77167984 DLC DLC OCL TDJ MUQ NLGGC YDXCP OCLCG AU@ CRU NIALS UKV3G NLE DEBBG CaSfIA B7205584 59231155 0801813123 9780801813122 (OCoLC)251991 (OCoLC)59231155 n-us--- e-uk--- PS88 .K7 PN701 .K75 820.9 17.80 bcl EC 5186 rvk HG 260 rvk Krieger, Murray, 1923- The classic vision; [electronic resource] the retreat from extremity in modern literature. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1971] xiv, 376 p. 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Theoretical; the tragic vision and the classic vision -- Historical; The drab vision of earthly love -- The retreat from extremity through the worship of bloodless abstraction -- Eloisa to Abelard; the escape from body or the embrace of body -- The cosmetic cosmos of The Rape of the Lock -- Samuel Johnson; The extensive view of mankind and the cost of acceptance -- The retreat from extremity through the embrace of the natural human community -- William Wordsworth and the Felix Culpa -- Adam Bede and the cushioned fall; the extenuation of extremity -- Postscript; the naive classic and the merely comic -- The retreat from extremity through the acceptance of the human barnyard-- The human inadequacy of Gulliver, Strephon, and Walter Shandy-and the barnyard alternative -- The assumption of the burden of history in All the King's Men -- The retreat from the extremity through an alternative to Sainthood -- The light-ening of the burden of history; Light in August -- Murder in the Cathedral; the limits of drama and the freedom of vision. Also issued online. American literature History and criticism. English literature History and criticism. Littérature américaine Histoire et critique. Littérature anglaise Histoire et critique. Literatuurtheorie. gtt Het tragische. gtt Geschichte 1700-1970. swd Literatur. swd Englisch. swd Online version: Krieger, Murray, 1923- Classic vision. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1971] (OCoLC)575381660 http://www.archive.org/details/classicvisionret00krie Free eBook from the Internet Archive http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL4583987M Additional information and access via Open Library NLGGC 781017637 NZ1 2941136 AU@ 000000220950 UNITY 01025921X UKBRD 0801813123 UKCLM 0801813123 HEBIS 102252807 DEBBG BV005094270 0 0 0 0 Project Gutenberg CSPC CSPC 2023-05-25 0 PS88 .K7 2023-05-25 00:00:00 2023-05-25 EBK 22666 22666