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003 OCoLC

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008 100609s1971 mdu b 001 0 eng

010 $a 77167984

020 $a0801815517 (pbk.)

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100 1 $aKrieger, Murray,$d1923-$3284277

245 14$aThe classic vision :$bthe retreat from extremity in modern literature.

260 $aBaltimore,$bJohns Hopkins Press$cc1971.

300 $axiv, 376 p. ;$c24 cm.

504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.

505 00$tTheoretical; the tragic vision and the classic vision --$tHistorical; The drab vision of earthly love --$gI.$tThe retreat from extremity through the worship of bloodless abstraction --$tEloisa to Abelard; the escape from body or the embrace of body --$tThe cosmetic cosmos of The Rape of the Lock --$tSamuel Johnson; The extensive view of mankind and the cost of acceptance --$gII.$tThe retreat from extremity through the embrace of the natural human community --$tWilliam Wordsworth and the Felix Culpa --$tAdam Bede and the cushioned fall; the extenuation of extremity --$tPostscript; the naive classic and the merely comic --$gIII.$tThe retreat from extremity through the acceptance of the human barnyard--$tThe human inadequacy of Gulliver, Strephon, and Walter Shandy-and the barnyard alternative --$tThe assumption of the burden of history in All the King's Men --$gIV.$tThe retreat from the extremity through an alternative to Sainthood --$tThe light-ening of the burden of history; Light in August --$tMurder in the Cathedral; the limits of drama and the freedom of vision.

530 $aAlso issued online.

650 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism.$3163243

650 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism.$3152887

776 08$iOnline version:$aKrieger, Murray, 1923-$tClassic vision.$dBaltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1971]$w(OCoLC)575381660