Murray Krieger
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Murray Krieger (November 27, 1923-August 5, 2000) was an American literary critic and theorist. He was a professor at the University of Iowa from 1963, and then the University of California, Irvine.
He was born in Newark, New Jersey. He studied at the University of Chicago, and Ohio State University as a doctoral student.
[edit] Works
- The New Apologists for Poetry (1956)
- The Tragic Vision (1960).
- The Problems of Aesthetics: A Book of Readings (1963) with Eliseo Vivas
- A Window to Criticism (1964)
- Northrop Frye in Modern Criticism (1966) editor
- Play and Place of Criticism (1967)
- The Classic Vision: The Retreat from Extremity in Modern Literature (1971)
- Literature and History (1974) with Ralph Cohen
- Theory of Criticism: A Tradition and Its System (1976)
- Directions for Criticism: Structuralism & its Alternatives (1977) editor with L. S. Dembo
- Poetic Presence & Illusion: Essays in Critical History & Theory (1979)
- Arts on the Level (1981)
- Words about Words about Words: Theory, Criticism & the Literary Text (1988)
- A Reopening of Closure (1989)
- Ekphrasis (1992)
- Aims of Representation: Subject, Text, History (1993) editor
- The Institution of Theory (1994)
[edit] Reference
- Murray Krieger and Contemporary Critical Theory (1986) edited by Bruce Henricksen
