Creation and discovery : essays in criticism and aesthetics / Eliseo Vivas.

Contenido: 1. Literary criticism: Dreiser, an inconsistent mechanist -- Henry and William -- Kafka's distorted mask -- The two dimensions of reality in The brothers Karamazov -- 2. Problems of aesthetics: What is a poem? -- A definition of the aesthetic experience -- Literature and knowledge -- The object of the poem -- Naturalism and creativity -- 3. Theory of criticism: Criticism, intrinsic and extrinsic -- The objective correlative of T.S. Eliot -- The objective basis of criticism -- 4. Aesthetic theories: Four notes on I.A. Richards' aesthetic theory -- A note on the emotion in Dewey's theory of art -- Jordan's defense of poetry -- Aesthetics and theory of signs -- Allen Tate as man of letters.