Krieger, Murray

Krieger, Murray

▪ American literary critic
born Nov. 27, 1923, Newark, N.J., U.S.
died Aug. 5, 2000, California

      American literary critic known for his studies of the special nature of the language of imaginative literature.

      Krieger attended Rutgers University (1940–42), the University of Chicago (M.A., 1948), and Ohio State University (Ph.D., 1952). He taught at the Universities of Minnesota (1952–58) and Illinois (1958–63) before his appointment to the first American-chaired professorship in literary criticism, at the University of Iowa (1963–66). He also taught in the University of California system, and in 1967 he founded the influential School of Criticism and Theory while he was at the university's Irvine campus. In 1987 he was the founding director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute.

      Krieger believed that poetic language has a unique capacity to reveal vision and meaning, a capacity beyond the scope of everyday language. He set forth his philosophy of literature in The New Apologists for Poetry (1956), The Tragic Vision (1960), and The Classic Vision (1971), which were later published together as Visions of Extremity in Modern Literature (1973). Krieger was among the earliest literary critics to insist on the importance of literary theory; he also stated, in The Play and Place of Criticism (1967), that language provides order and meaning to human experience. Among his later works are Theory of Criticism: A Tradition and Its System (1976), Poetic Presence and Illusion (1979), Arts on the Level (1981), Words About Words About Words: Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text (1988), A Reopening of Closure: Organicism Against Itself (1989), Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign (1992), The Ideological Imperative: Repression and Resistance in Recent American Theory (1993), and The Institution of Theory (1994).

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