Texts by Murray Krieger, 1967

Compiled by Eddie Yeghiayan

"Ekphrasis and the Still Movement of Poetry; or, Laokoön Revisited." In Frederick P.W. McDowell, ed., The Poet as Critic, pp. 3-26. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1967.
Conference on the Poet as Critic, October 28-30, 1965, held at the Iowa Center for Modern Letters, University of Iowa.
See The Play and Place of Criticism (1967), Chapter 8, pp. 105-128, and Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign (1992), Appendix.
The Play and Place of Criticism. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1967.
Contents:
Preface:vii-ix.
1. The Play and Place of Criticism:3-16.
  I. The Play of Criticism:17-128.
2. The Innocent Insinuations of Wit: The Strategy of Language in Shakespeare's Sonnets:19-36.
3. The Dark Generations of Richard III: 37-52.
4. The "Frail China Jar" and the Rude Hand of Chaos:53-68.
5. Dover Beach and the Tragic Sense of Eternal Recurrence:69-77.
6. The Marble Faun and the International Theme:79-90.
7. From Youth to Lord Jim: The Formal-Thematic Use of Marlow: 91-104.
8. The Ekphrastic Principle and the Still Movement of Poetry; or, Laokoön Revisited:105-128.
  II. The Place of Criticism:129-251.
9. The Disciplines of Literary Criticism:131-148.
10. Joseph Warren Beach's Modest Appraisal:149-152.
11. Contextualism Was Ambitious:153-164.
12. Contextualism and the Relegation of Rhetoric:165-176.
13. Critical Dogma and the New Critical Historians:177-193.
14. Platonism, Manichaeism, and the Resolution of Tension: A Dialogue: 195-218.
15. Northrop Frye and Contemporary Criticism: Ariel and the Spirit of Gravity: 221-237.
16. The Existential Basis of Contextual Criticism:239-251.
A volume of collected essays reprinted--occasionally in original form, sometimes slightly revised, sometimes considerably rewritten or supplemented.
The essay "The Innocent Insinuations of Wit: The Strategy of Language in Shakespeare's Sonnets," pp. 19-36, appears here for the first time.