The Classic Vision: The Retreat from Extremity in Modern Literature

by Murray Krieger

Book Overview

In an earlier book Professor Krieger discussed the tragic vision as the confrontation with extremity--the writer's commitment to a master metaphor even as he acknowledges the incompleteness of that metaphor. The term classic is used here to indicate the sense of restraint, of acceptance, of coming to terms with limitations self-imposed--as well as the awareness of the alternative one rejects in turning away from self-indulgence. The writer is thus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801815517
• ISBN13: 9780801815515
• Release Date: November 1973
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"