Murray Krieger's Contributions to Periodicals

Compiled by

Eddie Yeghiayan

• "Creative Criticism: A Broader View of Symbolism." Sewanee Review (Winter 1950), 58(1): 36-51.

• "A Prayer at Christmas Time." Argo (Spring 1951): 8.

• "Measure for Measure and Elizabethan Comedy." PMLA (June 1951), 66(4): 775-784.

  Reprinted in Rolf Soellner and Samuel Bertsche, eds., Measure for Measure: Text, Source, and Criticism, pp. 91-99. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966.
  -- Reprinted in George L. Geckle, ed., Twentieth Century Interpretations of Measure for Measure: A Collection of Critical Essays , pp. 104-106. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970.

• "The Ambiguous Anti-Romanticism of T.E. Hulme." ELH (March 1953), 20(1): 300-314.

• "Benedetto Croce and the Recent Poetics of Organicism." Comparative Literature (Summer 1955), 7(3): 252-258.

• "Dover Beach and the Tragic Sense of Eternal Recurrence." University of Kansas City Review (Autumn 1956), 23(1): 73-79. See The Play and Place of Criticism, Chapter 5.

• "Tragedy and the Tragic Vision." Kenyon Review (Spring 1958), 20(2):281-299.

  See The Tragic Vision ( 1960), Chapter 1.

• "Conrad's Youth: A Naive Opening to Art and Life." College English (March 1959), 20(6) :275-280.

  Reprinted in Lee Steinmetz, ed., Analyzing Literary Works : A Guide for College Students , pp. 106-112. Evanston, Ill.: Row, Peterson, 1962.

  Reprinted in Michael Timko and Clinton F. Oliver, eds., 38 Short Stories: An Introductory Anthology, pp. 49-57. New York: Knopf, 1968.

  See The Play and Place of Criticism, Chapter 7.

• "The Dark Generations of Richard III." Criticism (Winter 1959), 1(1): 32-48.

  See The Play and Place of Criticism, Chapter 3.

• "Recent Criticism, `Thematics', and the Existential Dilemma." Centennial Review of Arts and Science (Winter 1960), 4(1): 32-50. A condensed version of the final chapter of The Tragic Vision.

• "The `Frail China Jar' and the Rude Hand of Chaos." Centennial Review of Arts and Science (Spring 1961), 5(2): 176-194.
       Reprinted in The Play and Place of Criticism, Chapter 4.

• "After the New Criticism." Massachusetts Review (Autumn 1962), 4(1): 183-205.

• "Contextualism Was Ambitious." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (Fall 1962), 21(1): 81-88. See The Play and Place of Criticism, Chapter 11.

• "Every Critic His Own Platonist." CEA Chap Book [Supplement to the CEA Critic (December 1963), 26(3): 25-28. See The Play and Place of Criticism, Chapter 14.

• "The Poet and His Work--and the Role of Criticism." College English (March 1964), 15(6): 405-412. See The Play and Place of Criticism, Chapter 1.

• "The Existential Basis of Contextual Criticism." Criticism (Fall 1966), 8(4): 305-317. See The Play and Place of Criticism, Chapter 16.

• "The Continuing Need for Criticism." Concerning Poetry (Spring 1968), 1(1): 7-21. See The Classic Vision, Chapter 2.

• "Literary Analysis and Evaluation--and the Ambidextrous Critic." Contemporary Literature (Summer 1968), 9(3): 290-310.
       Reprinted in a revised version in L.S. Dembo, ed., Criticism: Speculative and Analytical Essays, pp. 16-36. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968.
       Translated into German by Margit Smuda and Sabine Deitmer as "Analyse und Wertung--und Der Zwiehandige Literaturkritiker." In Jürgen Schlaeger, ed., Kritik in der Krise: Theorie der amerikanischen Literaturkritik, pp. 78-98. Munich: Fink, 1986.

• "The Critical Legacy of Matthew Arnold; or, the Strange Brotherhood of T.S. Eliot, I.A. Richards, and Northrop Frye." Southern Review (Spring 1969), 5(2): 457-474.
        Reprinted in Theory of Criticism, Chapter 5.
        Reprinted in Poetic Presence and Illusion, Chapter 6.

• "Eloisa to Abelard: The Escape from Body or the Embrace of Body." Eighteenth- Century Studies (Fall 1969), 3(1): 28-477.
        Reprinted in The Classic Vision, Chapter 3.

• "Fiction, Nature, and Literary Kinds in Johnson's Criticism of Shakespeare." EighteenthCentury Studies (Winter 1971), 4(2): 184-198.
        Reprinted in Poetic Presence and Illusion, Chapter 4.

• "Reply to Robert Kalmey." Eighteenth-Century Studies (Winter 1971-1972), 5(2): 318320. Reply to Robert Kalmey's "Rhetoric, Language, and Structure in Eloisa to Abelard," Eighteenth-Ce ntury Studies ( 1971-1972), 5(2): 315-318, which comments on Murray Krieger's

• "Fiction, History, and Empirical Reality." Critical Inquiry (December 1974), 1(2): 335360. A quite different version of this paper was delivered at the Clark Library Seminar on Literature and History, M arch 3, 1973, with the title "Fiction and Historical Reality: The Hourglass and the Sands of Time." See Theory of Criticism, Chapter 6.

• "Introduction: A Scorecard for the Critics." Contemporary Literature (Winter 1974), 15(1): 141-144.

• "Poetics Reconstructed: The Presence vs. the Absence of the Word." New Literary History (Winter 1976), 7(2): 347-375. A considerably reduced version of the final chapters of Theory of Criticism: A Tradation and Its System.

• "Reconsideration--The New Critics." New Republic (October 2, 1976), 175(14): 32-34. See Poetic Presence and Illusion, Chapter 7.

• "Theories about Theories about Theory of Criticism." Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association (Spring 1978), 11(1): 30-42.

• "Truth and Troth, Fact and Faith: Accuracy to the World and Fidelity to Vision." Literary Magazine (Irvine) (December 1978): 3-5.

• "Poetic Presence and Illusion I: Renaissance Theory and the Duplicity of Metaphor." Critical Inquiry (Summer 1979), 5(4): 597-6 19. See Poetic Presence and Illusion, Chapter 1.

• "Poetic Presence and Illusion II: Formalist Theory and the Duplicity of Metaphor." Boundary 2 (Fall 1979), 8(1): 95-121. For diagrams inadvertently excluded from this article see "Errata," Boundary 2 (Winter 1980), 8(2): 367-368, and Poetic Presence and Illusion, Chapter 10. See Poetic Presence and Illusion, Chapter 10.

• "Literature vs. Ecriture: Constructions and Deconstructions in Recent Critical Theory." Studies in the Literary Imagination (Spring 1979), 12(1): 1-17.

• "Reply to Norman Friedman." Comparative Literature Studies (September 1979), 16(3): 262-264.

• "Errata." Boundary 2 (Winter 1980), 8(2): 367-368.

• "Both Sides Now." New Orleans Review (Spring 1983), 10(1): 18-23.

• Reprinted in Bruce Henricksen, ed., Murray Krieger and Contemporary Critical Theory, pp. 42-55. Irvine Studies in the Humanities. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. Reprinted in Words about Words about Words, Chapter 10.

• "In the Wake of Morality: The Thematic Underside of Recent Theory." New Literary History (Autumn 1983), 15(1): 1 19-136. See Words about Words about Words, Chapte r 3.

• "Literary Theory in the University: A Survey." New Literary History (Winter 1983), 14(2): 432-433.

• "Orpheus mit Glück: The Deceiving Gratifications of Presence." Theatre Journal (October 1983), 35(3): 295-305. See Words about Words about Words, Chapter 14.

• "The Ambiguities of Representation and Illusion: An E.H. Gombrich Retrospective." Critical Inquiry (December 1984), 11(2): 181-194. See Words about Words about Words, Chapter 9.

• "A Humanity Within the Humanities: Literature Among the Discourses." Journal of Literary Criticism (Allahabad, India) (Summer 1984), 1(1). See Words about Words about Words, Chapter 12.

• "Post-New-Critical Fashions in Theory." Indian Journal of American Studies (ASRC, Hyderabad, India) (July 1984), 14(2): 189-206.
  This is a revised version of remarks delivered at the American Studies Research Centre in Hyderabad, India on January 31, 1984.

• Reprinted in S. Viswanathan, C.T. Indra, T. Stiraman, eds., Critical Essays: A Presentation Volume for Professor V.S. Seturamam, pp. 36-61. New Delhi: Macmillan India, 1987.

• "Optics and Aesthetic Perception: A Rebuttal." Critical Inquiry (March 1985), 11(3): 502508.
  

• "Literary Invention and the Impulse to Theoretical Change: `Or Whether Revolution Be the Same'." New Literary History (Autumn 1986), 18(1): 191-208.See Words about Words about Wor ds, Chapter 4.

• "The Counter-Ideological Tendency in Western Theory." [Kontrideologicheskaia traditsiia v zapadnoi teorii] Translated by O. Weinstein. Voprosy Literatury (June 1990): 91-97.

• "Institutionalizing American Literary Theory." American Studies (June 1991), 21(2): 124. Revised version of a lecture delivered at the Institute of American Culture, Academica Sinica in Taiwan on May 3, 1991.

• "The Counter-Ideological Tendency in Western Theory." EurAmerica (September 1991), 21(3): 1-28.
  Revised version of a lecture delivered at the Institute of American Culture, Academica Sinica in Taiwan on May 6, 1991.

• "Two Faces of an Old Argument: Historicism vs. Formalism in American Criticism."
  EurAmerica (December 1991), 21(4): 1-25.
  Revised version of a lecture delivered at the Institute of American Culture, Academic a Sinica in Taiwan on May 7, 1991.

• "The Anthropological Persistence of the Aesthetic: Real Shadows and Textual Shadows, Real Texts and Shadow Texts." New Literary History (Winter 1994), 25(1): 21-33.
  -- Reprinted in Frederick Burwick and Walter Pape, eds., Reflecting Senses: Perception and Appearance in Literature, Culture, and the Arts, pp.301-314. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter, 1995.

• "The School of Criticism and Theory: An Allegorical Narrative." New Literary History (Autumn 1994), 25(4):881-893.

• "The Current Rejection of the Aesthetic--and Its Survival." REAL-Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature (1994), 10:19-30.

• "'To Make Reason and the Will of God Prevail': The Heroic Dramas of Barry Stavis." Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature (Fall-Winter 1997), 9:153-172.

• "'Affinché prevalgano la ragione e il volere di dio': i drammi eroici di Barrie Stavis." Sipario (June/July 1998), 589/590:44-51.

  Italian translation of "'To Make Reason and the Will of God Prevail': The Heroic Dramas of Barry Stavis" (1997).

  "The "Imaginary"and Its Enemies." New Literary History, (Winter 2000), 31(1):129-162.

  In a special issue entitled "On the Writings of Wolfgang Iser"