University Press of America
Pages: 360
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Trim: 5¾ x 8¾
978-0-7618-1992-9 • Hardback • April 2001 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
Eduard H. Strauch is a Retired Professor of English.
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Permission
Chapter 3 Preface
Chapter 4 General Introduction
Chapter 5 Part I: The Historical Search for a Literary Aesthetic
Chapter 6 Traditional Perspective: Literature as Beauty, Truth, Meaning and the Sublime
Chapter 7 Part II: The Scope and Limits of Rational Literary Theory
Chapter 8 The Obsolescent Critical Language of Today
Chapter 9 Genre: Kind, Form or Modulation?
Chapter 10 Image, Metaphor and Symbol
Chapter 11 The Neo-Aristotelian Analysis and the Limits of Logic
Chapter 12 European Criticism of Anglo-American Formalism
Chapter 13 Part III: Literary Theory as Human Science
Chapter 14 The Search for a Science of Literary Criticism
Chapter 15 Part IV: The Psychological Interpretation of Literature
Chapter 16 Scope and Limits of the Freudian Psychoanalytical Interpretation of Literature
Chapter 17 C.G. Jung's Analytical Psychology and its Implications for Interpreting Literature
Chapter 18 Paul Diel's Psychology of Motivation: Subconscious Fate versus Supraconcsious Destiny
Chapter 19 Part V: The Mystical Dimension in Literature
Chapter 20 Introduction to Part V
Chapter 21 Dante's Vita Nuova as Riddle: A Medieval Meditation on the Numinous
Chapter 22 Four Dimensions of Signification in The Old Man and the Sea
Chapter 23 The Mystical Dimension of J.P. Sartre's Nausea
Chapter 24 Conclusion to Part V
Chapter 25 General Conclusion
Chapter 26 Appendix A
Chapter 27 Notes
Chapter 28 Bibliography
Chapter 29 Chapter-by-Chapter Summary Index
Chapter 30 Alpha Index
This book is a very important and original study of literary theory and is written in an admirably efficient and effective style which reflects the author's exceptionally mature scholarship and clear thinking about the cluster of essential topics related to literature and philosophy.
— Midwest Book Review
This book is a very important and original study of literary theory and is written in an admirably efficient and effective style which reflects the author's exceptionally mature scholarship and clear thinking about the cluster of essential topics related to literature and philosophy.
— Midwest Book Review