Writings 1
1946-circa 2000
Physical Description: 24.55 Linear Feet
Series Scope and Contents Summary
This series contains a variety of files associated with books written and edited by Krieger, articles and essays he contributed
to journals and books, and early critical writings and essays from his years as a student.
Series Arrangement
The series is organized in three subseries:
- Subseries 1.1. Monographs, 1956-1994.
- Subseries 1.2. Articles and essays, 1950-ca. 2000.
- Subseries 1.3. Early writings, 1946-1954.
Monographs Subseries 1.1.
1956-1994
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries contains drafts, manuscripts, proofs, correspondence, and related materials for most of the books written and
edited by Krieger. A large amount of the material in this subseries is undated. The subseries is arranged alphabetically by
book title, with date of first publication indicated parenthetically following the title. Files for each title are generally
arranged chronologically within the following groups: proofs, typescripts and notes, and correspondence. Within the proofs
and typescripts, complete publications are filed first, followed by individual chapters and then by fragments.
The Aims of Representation: Subject/Text/History (1987)
box 1, folder 1-3
Proofs
1987
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 1, folder 5-7
Typescripts, complete
1987
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 1, folder 8-14
Typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 7 folders.
box 2, folder 1
Typescript fragments
undated
box 2, folder 4
Typescripts and correspondence
1985
box 2, folder 5
Chapter 2 (Carroll), typescripts
undated
box 2, folder 6
Chapter 3 (Poster), typescripts
undated
box 2, folder 7
Chapter 4 (Rowe), typescripts
undated
box 2, folder 8
Chapter 5 (Giddens), typescripts
undated
box 2, folder 9
Chapter 7 (Iser), typescripts
undated
box 2, folder 10
Chapter 8 (La Capra), typescripts and correspondence
1985
Arts on the Level: The Fall of the Elite Object (1981)
box 2, folder 12-15, box 3, folder 1-3
Typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 7 folders.
box 3, folder 6-7
Typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 3, folder 8
Typescript fragments
undated
box 3, folder 9-10
Chapter 2, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 3, folder 11-13
Chapter 3, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 3, folder 14-16
Fragments of typescripts and holograph notes
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
The Classic Vision: The Retreat from Extremity in Modern Literature (1971)
box 3, folder 18, box 4, folder 1-5
Typescripts
General Physical Description note: 6 folders.
box 4, folder 6-8
Preface, typescripts and notes
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 5, folder 1-5
Chapter 1, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 5 folders.
box 5, folder 6
Chapter 2, typescripts
undated
box 5, folder 7
Chapter 3, typescripts
undated
box 5, folder 8
Chapter 4, typescripts
undated
box 5, folder 9
Chapter 5, typescripts
undated
box 5, folder 12
Chapter 7, typescripts
undated
box 5, folder 13
Chapter 8, typescripts
undated
box 5, folder 14
Chapter 10, typescripts
undated
box 5, folder 15
Chapter 11, typescripts
undated
box 5, folder 16-17
Typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 5, folder 18
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
box 5, folder 19
Epilogue, typescripts
undated
box 5, folder 21
Index, typescripts
undated
box 5, folder 22, box 6, folder 1
Draft of entire book, typescripts and holograph notes
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 6, folder 4-6
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
Directions for Criticism: Structuralism and Its Alternatives (1977)
box 6, folder 8
Adams chapter, typescripts and holograph notes
undated
box 6, folder 9
Freedman chapter, correspondence, typescripts and holograph notes
1976 and undated
box 6, folder 10
Girard chapter, typescripts and holograph notes
undated
box 6, folder 11
Said chapter, correspondence, typescripts and holograph notes
undated
box 6, folder 12
White chapter, correspondence, typescripts and holograph notes
1975 and undated
box 6, folder 13
University of Wisconsin Press, correspondence and financial statement
1978-1980
Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign (1992)
box 7, folder 9
Front matter-chapter 3, typescripts
1992
box 8, folder 1
Chapter 4-6, typescripts
1992
box 8, folder 2
Chapter 7-appendix, typescripts
1992
box 8, folder 3
Chapter 1, typescripts
undated
box 8, folder 4
Chapter 2, typescripts
undated
box 8, folder 5
Chapter 3, typescripts
undated
box 8, folder 6
Chapter 4, typescripts
undated
box 8, folder 7
Chapter 5, typescripts
undated
box 8, folder 8
Chapter 6, typescripts
undated
box 8, folder 9
Chapter 7, typescripts
undated
box 8, folder 10
Chapter 8, typescripts
undated
box 8, folder 11
Chapter 1, typescripts
1991
box 8, folder 12
Chapter 2, typescripts
1991
box 9, folder 1
Chapter 3, typescripts
1991
box 9, folder 2
Chapter 4, typescripts
1991
box 9, folder 3
Chapter 5, typescripts
1991
box 9, folder 4
Chapter 6, typescripts
1991
box 9, folder 5
Chapter 7, typescripts
1991
box 9, folder 6
Chapter 8, typescripts
1991
box 9, folder 7
Appendix, typescripts
1991
box 9, folder 8
Chapters 1-3, typescripts
undated
box 9, folder 9
Chapters 4-6, typescripts
undated
box 9, folder 10
Chapters 7-8, typescripts
undated
box 9, folder 11, box 10, folder 1-4
Foreword and chapter 1, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 5 folders.
box 10, folder 5-17
undated
General Physical Description note: 13 folders.
box 10, folder 18-19
1989
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 11, folder 1-6, box 10, folder 20-22
undated
General Physical Description note: 9 folders.
box 11, folder 8-15
Chapter 3, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 8 folders.
box 11, folder 16-21
undated
General Physical Description note: 6 folders.
box 12, folder 1-5
undated
General Physical Description note: 5 folders.
box 12, folder 6-9
1990
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
box 12, folder 10
Typescripts and photocopy of essay on which chapter is based, undated
box 12, folder 11-13
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 12, folder 14-16
1990
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 13, folder 1
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
box 13, folder 2-4
Typescripts
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 13, folder 5-7
Chapter 8, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 13, item 8-15
Set 1, typescripts and holograph notes
1991
General Physical Description note: 8 folders.
box 13, folder 16-17
Foreword, typescripts and holograph notes
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 13, folder 18
Front matter and foreword, typescripts
1991
box 13, folder 19
Front matter, typescripts
1991
box 13, folder 20
Front matter and chapter 1, typescripts
undated
box 14, folder 2-17
undated
General Physical Description note: 16 folders.
box 14, folder 18-19
1990
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 15, folder 2-5
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
box FB-1, folder 7
'Ekphrasis' uses in Greek, TLG printout with Paul Davis' translation
undated
box 15, folder 6
Emblems, created by Joan Krieger
undated
The Ideological Imperative: Repression and Resistance in Recent American Theory (1993)
box 15, folder 8-12, box 16, folder 1
Proofs
1992
General Physical Description note: 6 folders.
box 16, folder 3-4
1992
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 16, folder 5
Front matter and foreword, typescripts
1992
box 16, folder 6
Abstract, typescripts
1992
box 16, folder 7-10
Undated
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
box 16, folder 11-12
1991
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 16, folder 13-14
Chapter 2, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 17, folder 1-4
undated
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
box 17, folder 7
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
box 17, folder 10-12
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 17, folder 14
Proofs and typescripts
undated
box 17, folder 15-16
Typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 17, folder 17
Chapter 1, typescripts
undated
box 17, folder 18
Chapter 2, typescripts
undated
box 17, folder 19-20
Chapter 3, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
The Institution of Theory (1994)
box 18, folder 3-7
undated
General Physical Description note: 5 folders.
box 18, folder 8, box 19, folder 1
1993
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 19, folder 2-3
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 19, folder 5-7
1993
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 19, folder 8
Chapter 2, typescripts
undated
box 19, folder 9-10
Chapter 3, typescripts
undated
box 19, folder 12
Chapter 1, typescripts and holograph notes
undated
box 19, folder 14
Correspondence and other matters
1992
The New Apologists for Poetry (1956)
The Play and Place of Criticism (1967)
box 20, folder 1-2
Fragments, set 1, typescripts, offprint and holograph notes of entire book
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 20, folder 3
Acknowledgments and preface, holograph notes
undated
box 20, folder 4
Chapter 2, typescripts
undated
box 20, folder 5
Fragments, chapter 2, typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Poetic Presence and Illusion: Essays in Critical History and Theory (1979)
box 21, folder 1-3
Proofs
1979
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 21, folder 4-7
Typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
box 22, folder 1-3, box 21, folder 8
Set 2, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
box 22, folder 4
Chapter 1, typescripts
undated
box 22, folder 5
Chapter 5, typescripts
undated
box 22, folder 6
Chapter 8, typescripts
undated
box 22, folder 7-9
Chapter 9, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 22, folder 10-12
Chapter 12, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 22, folder 13
Chapter 14, typescripts
undated
box 22, folder 14
Chapter 15, typescripts
undated
box 22, folder 15
Chapter 16, photocopy and typescripts
undated
box 22, folder 16
Chapter 17, photocopy and typescripts
undated
box 22, folder 17-18, box 23, folder 1-2
Set 1, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
box 23, folder 3-7
Set 2, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 5 folders.
box 23, folder 8-9
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 23, folder 10
Correspondence and related materials
1978-1981
A Reopening of Closure: Organicism Against Itself (1989)
box 23, folder 11-12, box 24, folder 1-4
Proofs
1989
General Physical Description note: 6 folders.
box 25, folder 1-3
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 25, folder 4-5
1989
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 25, folder 6-7
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 26, folder 1-5, box 25, folder 10
Chapter 1, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 6 folders.
box 26, folder 6-10
Chapter 2, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 5 folders.
box 27, folder 1-2, box 26, folder 11-16
Chapter 3, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 8 folders.
box 27, folder 3-5
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 27, folder 6
Chapter 1, typescripts
undated
box 27, folder 7
Chapter 2, typescripts
undated
box 27, folder 8
Chapter 3, typescripts
undated
Theory of Criticism: A Tradition and Its System (1976)
box 30, folder 23-24, box 31, folder 1
Proofs, set 1
1976
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 31, folder 2-5
Set 1
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
box 32, folder 1-5, box 31, folder 6-10
Set 2
General Physical Description note: 10 folders.
box 32, folder 6
Preface, typescripts
undated
Table of contents, typescripts
box 32, folder 9-10
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 32, folder 13-14
Chapter 2, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 32, folder 15-17
Chapter 3, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
Chapter 4, typescripts
undated
box 33, folder 1-6
undated
General Physical Description note: 6 folders.
box 33, folder 8-12
Chapter 5, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 5 folders.
box 33, folder 13-15
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 33, folder 17-18
Chapter 7, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 33, folder 19-20, box 34, folder 1-3
Chapter 8, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 5 folders.
box 34, folder 4-9
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
General Physical Description note: 6 folders.
box 34, folder 10
Chapter 1, typescripts
undated
box 34, folder 11
Chapter 7, typescripts
undated
box 34, folder 12
Correspondence and other related materials
1982-1983
Tragic Vision: Variations on a Theme in Literary Interpretation (1960)
box 34, folder 13-14
Proofs, set 1, 1960
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 34, folder 15, box 35, folder 1-4
Typescripts, set 1
undated
General Physical Description note: 5 folders.
Words about Words about Words: Theory, Criticism, and the Literary Text (1988)
box 28, folder 1-6
Manuscript, set 1, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 6 folders.
box 28, folder 7-12
Manuscript, set 2, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 6 folders.
box 28, folder 13, box 29, folder 1-3
Manuscript, set 3, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
box 29, folder 4
Preface and table of contents, typescripts
undated
box 29, folder 5
Chapter 1, typescripts
undated
box 29, folder 6-7
Chapter 2, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 29, folder 8-13
Chapter 3, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 6 folders.
box 29, folder 14-16
Chapter 4, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 29, folder 17-18
Chapter 5, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 29, folder 19-21
Chapter 6, typescripts, holograph notes, letters, and photocopy
undated
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 30, folder 1
Chapter 8, typescripts
undated
box 30, folder 2
Chapter 9, typescripts
undated
box 30, folder 3-4
Chapter 10, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 30, folder 5-6
Chapter 11, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 30, folder 7-8
Chapter 12, typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 30, folder 9-10
Typescripts
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 30, folder 11
Offprint of German translation on which it is based
box 30, folder 12
Chapter 13 and abstracts, typescripts and holograph notes
undated
box 30, folder 15
Chapter 15, typescripts
undated
box 30, folder 16-17
Typescripts
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 30, folder 18
Preface, holograph notes
undated
box 30, folder 19
Chapter 4, typescripts
undated
box 30, folder 20
Chapter 5, typescripts and holograph notes
1986 and undated
box 30, folder 21
Chapter 14, typescripts
undated
Articles and essays Subseries 1.2.
1950-ca. 2000
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries includes edited drafts and offprints for most of Krieger's articles and essays, including those essays written
as chapters in books edited by others. The subseries is arranged alphabetically by the title of each piece, with date of first
publication indicated parenthetically following the title.
"After the New Criticism" (1962)
box 36, folder 3
"The Ambiguous Anti-Romanticism of T.E. Hulme" (1953), offprint
1953
box 36, folder 4
"American Criticism, Recent" (1970), holograph notes, offprint, and correspondence
1967-1970
"An Anthropological Persistence of the Aesthetic" (1994)
box 36, folder 5-10
Typescripts
1993
Physical Description: 6 folders.
"An Apology for Poetics" (1981)
box 36, folder 14-16
"The Arts and the Idea of Progress" (1982), typescripts, holograph notes, and correspondence
1981 and undated
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 36, folder 17
"Ascetic Assault on the Aesthetic in Recent American Theory" (undated), typescripts
undated
box 36, folder 18
"Benedetto Croce and the Recent Poetics of Organicism" (1955), offprint
1955
box 36, folder 19-21
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 36, folder 23-27, box 37, folder 1-6
"Coda: The Exhilaration--and Exasperation--of
Ekphrasis as a Subject," typescripts and holograph notes
1989 and undated
Physical Description: 11 folders.
box 37, folder 7
"Conrad's Youth" (1959), offprint
1959
box 37, folder 8
"Contemporary Literary Criticism" (1961), offprint
1961
box 37, folder 9
"Contextualism" (1974), typescripts
undated
"Contextualism and the Relegation of Rhetoric" (1964)
"Contextulaism was Ambitious" (1962)
box 37, folder 12
Typescripts and correspondence
1961 and undated
box 37, folder 14-15
"Continuing Need for Criticism" (1968), typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 2 folders.
"Conversion of History to Utopia in Shakespeare's
Sonnets" (1987)
box FB-1, folder 8
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
box 37, folder 17-19
"The Counter-Ideological Tendency in Western Theory" (1991)
box 37, folder 18-19
Typescripts
1991
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 37, folder 21
"Creative Criticism: A Broader View of Symbolism" (1950), offprint
1950
"The Critic as Person and Persona" (1973)
box 37, folder 22-23
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 38, folder 1
"Critical Dogma and the New Critical Historians" (1958), offprint
1958
"Critical Historicism" (1966)
box 38, folder 2-6
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 5 folders.
"Critical Legacy of Matthew Arnold" (1969)
box 38, folder 8-11
Typescripts
undated
Physical Description: 4 folders.
box 38, folder 13
"Critical Theory, History, and Sensibility" (1957), offprint
1957
box 38, folder 14-16
"Criticism as a Secondary Art" (1981), typescripts, holograph notes, and correspondence
1977 and undated
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 38, folder 17
"Critics at work" (1952), offprint
1952
"Current Rejection of the Aesthetic and its Survival" (1994)
box 38, folder 18-19
Typescripts
1993
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 38, folder 21
"Dark Generations of Richard III" (1959, 1967), typescripts and holograph notes
undated
box 38, folder 22
"The Discipline of Literary Criticism" (1965), offprint
1965
"'Dover Beach' and the Tragic Sense of Eternal Recurrence" (1956)
box 38, folder 26
"During the Colloquium playful Postscript; or, a Satisfaction" (1975), typescripts
undated
"An E.H. Gombrich Retrospective" (1984)
box 38, folder 27-28, box 39, folder 1-4
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 6 folders.
box 39, folder 6-7
"
Ekphrasis and the Still Movement of Poetry" (1967), typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 39, folder 8
"Eloisa to Abelard: the Escape from Body or the Embrace of Body" (1969), offprint
1969
box 39, folder 9
"Every Critic His Own Platonist" (1963), proof, typescript, holograph notes, and correspondence
1963 and undated
"Existential Basis of Contextual Criticism" (1966)
"Fiction and Historical Reality" (1974)
box 39, folder 13
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
"Fiction, History, and Empirical Reality"
box 39, folder 15-17
Typescripts
undated
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 39, folder 19
Correspondence and related materials
1974
"Fiction, nature, and Literary Kinds in Johnson's Criticism of Shakespeare" (1971)
box 39, folder 20
Typescripts and proofs
undated
"'Frail China Jar' and the Rude Hand of Chaos" (1961)
"A Humanity Within the Humanities: Literature Among the Discourses" (1984)
box 39, folder 24-30, box 40, folder 1
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 8 folders.
box 40, folder 3
Correspondence and related materials
1984
"In the Wake of Morality: the Thematic Underside of Recent Theory" (1983)
box 40, folder 5
Typescripts, holograph notes, and correspondence
1982 and undated
box 40, folder 7
"Institutionalizing American Literary Theory" (1991), offprint
1991
"Introduction: The Editor as Critic and the Critic as Editor" (1973)
box 40, folder 8-9
Typescripts
undated
Physical Description: 2 folders.
"Krieger Interview" (1991)
box 40, folder 14-16
Typescripts and printouts
1991
Physical Description: 3 folders.
"Literary Analysis and Evaluation-and the Ambidextrous Critic" (1968)
box 40, folder 18-21
Typescripts
undated
Physical Description: 4 folders.
box FB-1, folder 9, box 40, folder 22
Holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 40, folder 24
Correspondence and related materials
1978
"Literary Invention and the Impulse to Theoretical Change" (1986)
box 40, folder 25-32
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 8 folders.
box 41, folder 1
Correspondence and related materials
1983-1985
box AV-1, item MS-C02-V01
Lecture by Krieger at University of Texas, Dallas
1985
Physical Description: 1 vhs videocassette.
box 41, folder 2
"Literary Privilege of Evaluation" (1984)
box 41, folder 2-3
Typescripts
undated
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 41, folder 5
"Literary Theory in the University" (1983), offprint
1983
box 41, folder 6-7
"Literature as Illusion, as Metaphor, as Vision" (1978), typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 2 folders.
"Literature vs. Ecriture" (1979)
box 41, folder 9-12
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 4 folders.
box 41, folder 15-16
"Literature, Vision, and the Dilemmas of Practical Choice" (1975), typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 41, folder 17
"A Matter of Distinction: Interview" (1983), typescripts and related materials
1982 and undated
box 41, folder 18
"Measure for Measure and the Elizabethan Comedy" (1951), offprint
1951
box 42, folder 1-2
"Mediation, Language, and Vision in the Reading of Literature" (1969), typescripts, holograph notes, proofs, and offprint
undated
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 42, folder 3-7
"Murray Krieger at Konstanz" (1986), typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 5 folders.
box 42, folder 8
"My Travels with the Aesthetic" (2000), typescripts
undated
box 42, folder 9-11
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 3 folders.
"Optics and Aesthetic Perception" (1985)
box 42, folder 13-14
Typescripts
undated
Physical Description: 2 folders.
"Orpheus mit Glück" (1983)
box 42, folder 16-17
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 2 folders.
"The Poet and His Work-and the Role of Criticism" (1964)
box 43, folder 2
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
"Poetic Presence and Illusion" (1979)
box 43, folder 4-6
Typescripts
1978
Physical Description: 3 folders.
"Poetic Presence and Illusion II" (1979)
box FB-1, folder 10, box 43, folder 8-11
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 5 folders.
"Poetic Reconstructed: The Presence vs. the Absence of the Word" (1976)
box 43, folder 15-18
"Poetry as Art, Language as Aesthetic Medium" (1987), typescripts, holograph notes, correspondence, and related materials
1986-1989
Physical Description: 4 folders.
"Post-New Critical Fashions in Theory" (1984)
box 44, folder 3-4
"Preface to Visions of Extremity in Modern Literature" (1973), typescripts
undated
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 44, folder 5
"Preliminary Remarks to the Discussion of My Paper" (1975), typescripts
undated
"Presentation and Representation in the Renaissance Lyric" (1982)
box 44, folder 6-8
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 44, folder 10
Correspondence and related materials
1983-1986
box 91, folder 3
"El Problema de la Ecfrasis: Imagenes y Palabras, Espacio y Tiempo - y la Obra Literaria," offprint
undated
box 44, folder 11
"Recent Criticism, 'Thematics,' and the Existential Dilemma" (1960), offprint
1960
"Recent Revolution in Theory and the Survival of the Literary Disciplines" (1979)
box 44, folder 12-14
Typescripts
undated
Physical Description: 3 folders.
"Reconsideration-the New Critics" (1976)
box 44, folder 16
Typescripts, holograph notes, and correspondence
1976
"Reply to Norman Friedman" (1979)
box 44, folder 18
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
box 44, folder 20
"Representation in Words and in Drama" (1990)
box 44, folder 20-22, box 45, folder 1-12
Typescripts
1988 and undated
Physical Description: 15 folders.
box 45, folder 14
"Review of E.M.W. Tillyard's
The Epic Strain in the English Novel" (1961), offprint
1961
"Review of Geoffrey Hartman's
Beyond Formalism" (1974)
box 45, folder 15-17
Typescripts and holograph notes
1973 and undated
Physical Description: 3 folders.
"Review of Joseph Warren Beach's
Obsessive Images" (1962)
box 45, folder 21-22
"Review of Monroe Beardsley's
The Possibility of Criticism" (1972), typescripts
1971
Physical Description: 2 folders.
"Review of Richard Foster's
The New Romantics" (1962)
box 45, folder 23
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
box 45, folder 25
"Review of Robert Boies Sharp's
Irony in the Drama" (1961), offprint
1961
box 45, folder 26
"Review of Robert M. Browne's
Theories of Convention in Contemporary American Criticism" (1957), offprint
1957
"School of Criticism and Theory" (1994)
box 46, folder 1-9
Typescripts
1992-1993
Physical Description: 9 folders.
"Scorecard for the Critics" (1977)
box 46, folder 11-12
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 2 folders.
"The Semiotic Desire for the Natural Sign" (1990)
box 46, folder 14-20
Typescripts
undated
Physical Description: 7 folders.
"Shakespeare and the Critics Idolatry of the Word" (1976)
box 46, folder 23-25
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 46, folder 27
"Theoretical Contributions of Eliseo Vivas" (1976), typescripts and holograph notes
undated
"Theories about Theories about
Theory of Criticism" (1978)
box 47, folder 1-2
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 47, folder 4
Correspondence and related materials
1977-1982
box 47, folder 5
"'To Make Reason and the Will of God Prevail': The Heroic Dramas of Barrie Stavis" (1997), typescripts and offprint
1997
box 47, folder 6
"Towards a Contemporary Apology for Poetry" (1958), offprint
1958
"Tragedy and the Tragic Vision" (1958)
box 47, folder 11
"Tragic Vision Twenty Years After" (1979), holograph notes
undated
"Truth and Troth, Fact and Faith" (1978)
box 47, folder 12-13
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 2 folders.
box 47, folder 14
Offprint and related materials
1978
"Two Faces of an Old Argument" (1991)
box 47, folder 16
Offprint in English and Chinese
1991
box 47, folder 17
"The Unliterary Criticism of Determinism" (1950), offprint
1950
"The Verbal 'Image,'" typescripts
box 47, folder 18-21
undated
Physical Description: 4 folders.
"'A Waking Dream': The Symbolic Alternative to Allergy" (1981)
box 47, folder 25-26, box 48, folder 1
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 3 folders.
box 48, folder 3
"What was Literature II" and "Concluding Remarks" (1994), typescripts
undated
box 48, folder 4-10
"Words about Words about Words" (1984)
box 48, folder 11
Typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Physical Description: 8 folders.
box 48, folder 13
Correspondence and related materials
1982-1984
box 48, folder 14
"Word as a Human Genesis" (1981), typescripts and holograph notes
undated
Early writings Subseries 1.3.
1946-1954
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries comprises the earliest writings of Krieger and includes term papers written for Allen Tate at Kenyon College,
other student essays, student and instructor notebooks, and his Ph.D. exam answers. Arrangement of this subseries is alphabetical
by title or topic.
box 48, folder 15
"An Analysis and Critique of 'Byzantium' by W.B. Yeats," typescripts
1946
box 48, folder 16
"The Complexities in Pope's Use of the Mock-Heroic," typescripts
undated
box 48, folder 17
"Dame Sirith and the Comedy of Detachment," typescripts
1949
box 48, folder 18
Debate with James T. Farrell, holograph notes
1954
box 48, folder 19
"The Dialectic and Category-Integration in Dewey's
Aesthetics," typescripts
1946
box 48, folder 20
Essay on
A Farewell to Arms, typescripts
1946
box 48, folder 21
Essay on
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, typescripts
1946
box 48, folder 22
Essay on
The Seven That Were Hanged, typescripts
1947
box 48, folder 23
Essay on
The Sun Also Rises and
A Farewell to Arms, typescripts
1946
box 48, folder 24
"Hawthorne and the International Novel," typescripts and holograph notes
undated
box 48, folder 25
Holograph notes for a lecture at Walker Art Center
1953
box 48, folder 26
"Johnson's 'Charles XII' and Pope's 'Atticus,'" typescripts
undated
box 48, folder 27
"Moral Consistency in
Measure for Measure," typescripts
1948
box 48, folder 28
"The Odes of Dryden and Pope," typescripts
1949
box 48, folder 29
Ph.D. Exams, typescripts
1952
box 48, folder 30
"Realistic Story-Telling and the Modern Novel of Ideas," typescripts
undated
box 48, folder 31
"Recurrent Themes in Melville: A Study of
Bartleby,
Benito Cereno, and
The Encantadas," typescripts
1947
box 48, folder 32
"Rhetoric and Poetry in Pope," typescripts
1949
box 48, folder 33
Student notebooks from Ohio State University
1949-1952
Professional correspondence 2
1948-1996
Physical Description: 7.85 Linear Feet
Series Scope and Contents Summary
This series includes Krieger's professional correspondence with teachers, colleagues, scholars, students, and friends, and
with organizations with which he was involved. It covers many professional topics, including his advice to universities on
personnel decisions, to university presses on the publishability of manuscripts, and to federal agencies on the awarding of
grants.
Series Arrangement
The series is organized in two subseries:
- Subseries 2.1. Correspondence with individuals, 1948-1996.
- Subseries 2.2. Correspondence with organizations, 1963-1993.
Correspondence with individuals Subseries 2.1.
1948-1996
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries includes Krieger's professional correspondence with or concerning colleagues, scholars, and friends and covers
a variety of topics, largely professional. The subseries is arranged alphabetically by the surname of the individual correspondent,
or in some cases the surname of the person the correspondence concerns, and chronologically therein. An index of significant
correspondents is provided.
box 49, folder 1
Aaron-Abrams
1973-1984 and undated
box 49, folder 2 RESTRICTED
Adams
1966-1985
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence in this file is restricted until 2037-01-01.
box 49, folder 4 RESTRICTED
Babb-Battersby
1964-1986
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence in this file is restricted until 2026-01-01.
box 49, folder 5 RESTRICTED
Bauwens-Bernstein
1957-1989
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence and evaluation statements in this file are restricted until 2026-01-01 and 2052-01-01.
box 49, folder 6
Bernstein-Bewell
1960-1989
box 49, folder 7 RESTRICTED
Binni-Bishop
1976-1987
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence in this file is restricted until 2035-01-01.
box 49, folder 9
Bourjaily-Bowden
1962-1988
box 49, folder 10
Bradley-Brose
1957-1987 and undated
box 50, folder 1
Brown-Butterfield
1964-1988
box 50, folder 2 RESTRICTED
Cabral-Chino
1971-1992
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence and evaluation statements in this file is restricted until 2028-01-01, 2052-01-01, and 2059-01-01.
box 50, folder 3 RESTRICTED
Chiampi
1974-1980
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence and evaluation statements in this file is restricted until 2031-01-01.
box 50, folder 5 RESTRICTED
Clark, M.
1975-1985
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence and evaluation statements in this file is restricted until 2052-01-01.
box 50, folder 7
Cohen-Corrigan
1974-1985 and undated
box 50, folder 8-10
Colie
1965-1975 and undated
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 50, folder 11
Coutinho-Cutter
1970-1989 and undated
box 51, folder 1 RESTRICTED
Davidson-De Lauretis
1962-1986
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence and evaluation statements in this file is restricted until 2036-01-01.
box 51, folder 2 RESTRICTED
De Man-Derrida
1975-1987
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence and evaluation statements in this file is restricted until 2037-01-01.
Reproduction Restriction
All reproduction of materials written by Jacques Derrida must be authorized by designates of his heirs. Contact Special Collections
and Archives for more information.
box 51, folder 3 RESTRICTED
Desenberg-Dougherty
1976-1987
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence and evaluation statements in this file is restricted until 2029-01-01.
box 51, folder 4
Douglass-Dwivendi
1975-1987
box 51, folder 5 RESTRICTED
Easton-Elliott
1972-1987
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence and evaluation statements in this file is restricted until 2028-01-01, 2051-01-01 and 2052-01-01.
box 51, folder 6 RESTRICTED
Ellis-Eulert
1962-1988
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence in this file is restricted until 2028-01-01.
box 51, folder 7
Fagles-Fisher
1963-1989 and undated
box 51, folder 8
Fitch-Folkenflik
1977-1989 and undated
box 51, folder 9 RESTRICTED
Fontanella-Freedman
1964-1989 and undated
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence and evaluation statements in this file is restricted until 2053-01-01.
box 51, folder 10 RESTRICTED
Friedman-Fynsk
1968-1987 and undated
Conditions Governing Access note
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box 51, folder 11
Gaillard-Gearhart
1972-1988
box 51, folder 12 RESTRICTED
Gelley
1979-1985 and undated
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence and evaluation statements in this file is restricted until 2036-01-01.
box 51, folder 13
Georgianna-Girard
1972-1993 and undated
box 52, folder 1
Givler-Gollin
1968-1984 and undated
box 52, folder 6
Gumpel-Gunderson
1977-1985
box 52, folder 7
Haffenden-Hartman, C.
1971-1991
box 52, folder 8
Hartman, G.-Hartman, M.
1966-1987 and undated
box 52, folder 10
Hause-Henricksen
1965-1989 and undated
box 52, folder 11
Henrikson-Hirsch
1968-1990
box 52, folder 13
Holaday-Holloway
1973-1990
box 53, folder 1
Holstun-Hrushovshi
1966-1989
box 53, folder 2
Huffman-Huttenback
1971-1991 and undated
box 53, folder 3 RESTRICTED
Inbar-Irwin
1975-1990
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence and evaluation statements in this file is restricted until 2051-01-01.
box 53, folder 4-6
Iser
1979-1989
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 53, folder 7
Jackson-Jameson
1968-1986
box 53, folder 8 RESTRICTED
Jauss-Johnston
1965-1986
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence and evaluation statements in this file is restricted until 2052-01-01.
box 53, folder 9
Jorgensen-Justus
1977-1981and undated
box 53, folder 10
Kalim-Katz
1970-1988 and undated
box 53, folder 11 RESTRICTED
Keitel-King
1974-1988 and undated
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence and evaluation statements in this file is restricted until 2051-01-01.
box 53, folder 12
Kodolányi-Kravetz
1957-1984 and undated
box 54, folder 1
Krieger-Kurzweil
1969-1983 and undated
box 54, folder 2
Laborde-Lazarus
1974-1987
box 54, folder 3 RESTRICTED
Lee-Lentricchia
1967-1991 and undated
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence and evaluation statements in this file is restricted until 2026-01-01.
box 54, folder 4 RESTRICTED
Lenz-Lillyman
1961-1991 and undated
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence and evaluation statements in this file is restricted until 2039-01-01.
box 54, folder 5
Lindblad-Lyotard
1969-1996 and undated
box 54, folder 6
Mack-Mailloux
1976-1989 and undated
box 54, folder 7
Maini-Mandel
1972-1989 and undated
box FB-1, folder 11
Maradudin-Marshall
1973-1993
box 54, folder 8
Martin- Mboya
1960-1989 and undated
box 54, folder 9
McAllister
1969-1974 and undated
box 54, folder 10
McCabe-McNamara
1974-1993 and undated
box 54, folder 11
Mehlman-Miller, D.
1965-1986 and undated
box 54, folder 12
Miller, J. Hillis
1979-1986
box 55, folder 1 RESTRICTED
Miller, P.-Miner
1964-1985 and undated
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence and evaluation statements in this file is restricted until 2049-01-01 and 2052-01-01.
box 55, folder 2-4
Misra
1976-1988
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 55, folder 5 RESTRICTED
Mitchell-Monk
1972-1984 and undated
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence and evaluation statements in this file is restricted until 2034-01-01.
box 55, folder 6
Montgomery-Moriarty
1975-1989 and undated
box 55, folder 9 RESTRICTED
Newman-Novak
1966-1988
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to some correspondence and evaluation statements in this file is restricted until 2039-01-01.
box 55, folder 12
Parson-Pearce
1963-1988 and undated
box 56, folder 1, box 55, folder 13
Peic
1981-1986
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 56, folder 2
Peltason-Penney
1984-1991
box 56, folder 3
Percival
1957-1968 and undated
box 56, folder 4
Percy-Pickering
1975-1985
box 56, folder 5
Pinchuk-Quinones
1969-1995 and undated
box 56, folder 6
Raaberg-Randel
1962-1987 and undated
box 56, folder 8
Riddel-Riffaterre
1974-1989
box 56, folder 9
Riordan-Rose
1973-1989 and undated
box 57, folder 1
Rosenberg-Russell
1969-1988 and undated
box 57, folder 4
Schutt-Seltzer
1966-1988 and undated
box 57, folder 5
Seturaman-Shepherdson
1980-1989
box 57, folder 6
Sherwood-Simpson
1961-1991
box FB-1, folder 12
Singh
1971-1991and undated
box 57, folder 7
Skarstrom-Sowarka
1974-1987
box 57, folder 9
Stecher-Sypherd
1961-1989 and undated
box 57, folder 11
Unger-Ungvari
1960-1987 undated
box 58, folder 1
Van Hoven-Voloshin
1980-1987
box 58, folder 2
Vivas
1948-1991and undated
box 58, folder 3
Waggoner-Wasserstrom
1961-1986 and undated
box 58, folder 4
Watkins-Weingartner
1969-1993 and undated
box 58, folder 5
Weinsheimer-Wellek
1961-1989
box 58, folder 7
Wiesenfarth-Woodmansee
1961-1985
box 58, folder 9-10
Wu
1979-1986
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 58, folder 11
Yeghiayan-Yeh
1967-1989 and undated
box 59, folder 1
Zavarzadeh-Zsuffa
1976-1991 and undated
box Restricted
Restricted correspondence
Correspondence with organizations Subseries 2.2.
1963-1993
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries consists of Krieger's correspondence with journals, presses, professional societies, and other organizations.
Materials in this subseries detail, among other topics, his twenty-year association with the Johns Hopkins University Press,
publisher of many of his books. The subseries is arranged alphabetically by the name of the group with which Krieger was corresponding
and chronologically therein.
box 59, folder 2
Academy of Literary Studies
1974-1979
box 59, folder 2
AEDEAN (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos)
1985
box 59, folder 3-8
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1968-1979
General Physical Description note: 6 folders.
box 60, folder 2
Association of Departments of English
1978-1979
box 60, folder 6
California State University, Northridge
1980
box 60, folder 8-9
Critical Inquiry
1975-1985
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 60, folder 12
English Institute
1965-1983
box 60, folder 13
Gale Research Company
1983-1988
box 60, folder 15
Guggenheim Foundation
1956-1976
box 60, folder 16
Harvard University Press
1981
box 60, folder 17
Holt, Rinehart & Winston
1976-1983
box 60, folder 18
Humboldt-Stiftung
1985-1987
box 60, folder 19
Humanities in Society
1980
box 60, folder 20
IAUPE (International Association of University Professors of English)
1983-1989
box 60, folder 21
Indiana University Press
1981-1982
box 60, folder 22
Institute of Foreign Literatures, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1988-1990
box 60, folder 23
IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board)
1985-1986
box 60, folder 24
JEGP (
Journal of English and German Philology)
1985-1987
box 60, folder 25
Johns Hopkins University
1978
box 60, folder 26-28, box 61, folder 1-5
Johns Hopkins University Press
1966-1992
General Physical Description note: 8 folders.
box 61, folder 6
Journal of Modern History
1979
box 61, folder 8
Leyden Institute for Social Policy Research
1987
box 61, folder 9
Missouri Review
1977-1983
box 61, folder 10
Modern Language Association
1973-1977
box 61, folder 11
Modern Language Quarterly
1979
box 61, folder 12
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities)
1971-1978
General note
See also materials related to the NEH in Subseries 3.1.
box FB-5, folder 1
New Literary History
1975-1990
box 61, folder 13
Northwestern University and Northwestern University Press
1980-1985
box 61, folder 14-17
New Orleans Review
1982-1986
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
box 61, folder 18
Ohio State University
1980-1985
box 61, folder 19
Ohio State University Press
1983-1984
box 61, folder 20
Oregon Humanities Center
1988-1989
box 61, folder 21
Oxford University Press
1966-1987
box 61, folder 23
Philosophy and Literature
1976
box 62, folder 2
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
1985-1988
box 62, folder 3
Princeton University Press
1963-1981
box 62, folder 4
PTL (
Poetics and Theory of Literature)
1975-1977
box 62, folder 5
REAL (
Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature)
1977-1989
box 62, folder 6
Renaissance Quarterly
1985
box 62, folder 7
Representations
1981-1983
box 62, folder 8
Rice University
1980-1981
box 62, folder 9
Rockefeller Foundation
1978-1981
box 62, folder 10
Routledge and Kegan Paul (publisher)
1978
box 62, folder 11
Rutgers University Press
1975-1979
box 62, folder 13
Shakespeare Quarterly
1976
box 62, folder 14
Southern Illinois University Press
1988
box 62, folder 15
Structuralist Review
1976-1977
box 62, folder 16
University of Chicago Press
1977-1985
box 62, folder 18
University of Illinois Press
1976
box 62, folder 18
University of Kansas
1989-1990
box 62, folder 19
University of Minnesota
1977-1978
box 62, folder 20
University of Minnesota Press
1977-1983
box 62, folder 21
University of Nebraska Press
1983
box 62, folder 22
University of North Carolina Press
1984-1988
box 62, folder 23
University of Toronto
1982
box 62, folder 24
University of Virginia Press
1988
box 62, folder 25
University of Washington
1982-1989
box 62, folder 26
University of Wisconsin Press
1979-1985
box 62, folder 28
Vocabularies of Criticism and Theory
1985
box 62, folder 29
Western Humanities Review
1976-1982
box 62, folder 30
Yale University Press
1979
School of Criticism and Theory 3
1974-1992
Physical Description: 6.1 Linear Feet
Series Scope and Contents Summary
This series documents Krieger's career as founder and director of the School of Criticism and Theory, a summer program for
junior faculty and advanced graduate students. The School resided at UC Irvine from 1976-1979, Northwestern University from
1981-1985, Dartmouth College from 1986-1996, and thereafter at Cornell University. Krieger was co-director with Hazard Adams
for sessions in 1976 and 1977, and was director for sessions in 1978, 1979, and 1981. The materials document the activities
of the School of Criticism and Theory from its inception at UC Irvine through its residence at Dartmouth College.
Series Arrangement
This series is organized in two subseries:
- Subseries 3.1. General administrative files, 1974-1992.
- Subseries 3.2. Session files, 1976-1992.
General administrative files Subseries 3.1.
1974-1992
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries contains extensive documentation for the years during which the School of Criticism and Theory was at UC Irvine;
it has few materials concerning the School's later years. There are large correspondence files with Geoffrey Hartman, who
served as director of the school during the years at Northwestern, and with other fellows and faculty of the school, such
as Stanley Fish, Ralph Freedman, René Girard, Wolfgang Iser, Fredric Jameson, Louis Marin, Leonard Meyer, Edward Said, and
Hayden White. The School was supported in part by an NEH Grant, and there is NEH documentation and correspondence. The School
was also supported by UCI funds, and there is correspondence with UCI administrators and with UC administrators who supported
two student fellowships. Also included are financial records for the years 1974-1975, photographs taken at the School's gatherings,
and student-related materials. The subseries is arranged topically.
Board of Senior Fellows meetings
box 63, folder 1
Krieger to Board
1975-1982
box 63, folder 2
Hartman to Board
1982-1987
box 63, folder 3
Others to Board
1977-1988
box 63, folder 7
Cavell, Stanley
1980-1981
box 63, folder 11
Freedman, Ralph
1974-1981 and undated
box 63, folder 15
Hartman, Geoffrey
1974-1987
box 64, folder 2
Kerman, Joseph
1975-1976 and undated
box 64, folder 4
Lentricchia, Frank
1975-1977
box 64, folder 5
Lipking, Lawrence
1980-1982
box 64, folder 6
Marin, Louis
1976-1977 and undated
box 64, folder 8
Miller, J. Hillis
1977-1979
box 64, folder 10
Riffaterre, Michael
1977-1991
box 64, folder 12
Smith, Barbara Herrnstein
1976-1977 and undated
box 64, folder 13
Todorov, Tzvetan
1980-1981
box 64, folder 15
UC/UCI administrators
1974-1981
box 64, folder 16
UC/UCI administrators, summer fellowships
1975-1978
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities)
box 65, folder 1-3
Correspondence
1974-1978
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
General note
See also NEH correspondence in Subseries 2.2.
box 65, folder 4
Guidelines and brochures
1972-1977
box 65, folder 5-6
Proposals
1974-1976
General Physical Description note: 2 folders
box 65, folder 7
Site visit agenda and documents
1976
Correspondence with others
box 65, folder 8, box 66, folder 1-10
1974-1984
General Physical Description note: 11 folders.
box 66, folder 13-14
Financial records
1974-1975
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 66, folder 15
Brochure and publicity
1975
box 67, folder 1-6, box 66, folder 16-19
Photographs
undated
General Physical Description note: 10 folders.
box 67, folder 8
Form letters to applicants
1980-1981 and undated
box 67, folder 9
Miscellaneous
1976-1981 and undated
box 68, folder 1-11, box 67, folder 10-17, box 69, folder 1-17
Files on individual students, including Rosalind Krauss, Vincent Leitch, Robert Polzin, Gabrielle Schwab, and Gary Shapiro
1972-1990
General Physical Description note: 37 folders.
Session files Subseries 3.2.
1976-1992
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries contains documentation concerning participants, courses offered, brochures and publicity, and financial and
employment records for the School of Criticism and Theory for the years 1976-1979 when it resided at UCI. Papers presented
by fellows at the weekly colloquia during the years 1976-1979 and 1981 are included, along with Murray Krieger's commentaries.
The file on the 1977 session includes a transcription of Murray Krieger's course "The Languages of the Plastic Arts and of
Literature in Literary Criticism: A Historical Survey," together with audio recordings of the course. This subseries is arranged
topically.
box 70, folder 1-4, box 91, folder 1
1976-1979
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
box 70, folder 8-11
1976-1979
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
box 70, folder 13-14
1976-1977
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 71, folder 1-5
1978
General Physical Description note: 5 folders.
box 71, folder 9
Commentary by Murray Krieger on Michael Rittaterre
1977
box 72, folder 5-9
1976-1979
General Physical Description note: 5 folders.
Course taught by Krieger
1977
box 73, folder 1-4
Notes
1977
General Physical Description note: 4 folders..
box AV-2, item MS-C02-A002 to MS-C02-A018 RESTRICTED
Ut pictura, 12 lectures
1977 June-July
General Physical Description note: 17 audiocassettes.
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to original audio cassettes is restricted; copies are made for researcher use.
box 73, folder 5-8 RESTRICTED
Employment records
1976-1979
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to these files is restricted until 2030-01-01.
box 74, folder 1-4
Financial records
1976-1979
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
box 74, folder 6-10
Participant lists
1976-1981
General Physical Description note: 5 folders.
University of California, Irvine, critical theory programs 4
1974-1992
Physical Description: 2.4 Linear Feet
Series Scope and Contents Summary
This series details teaching and research activities in critical theory at UC Irvine, first as a School of Humanities interdisciplinary
concentration or emphasis, then as a Focused Research Group, and finally as an Institute in contemporary critical theory.
Materials include memoranda, financial records, brochures, and documents relating to post-doctoral fellowships and visiting
researchers. Also included are documents and photographs concerning colloquia and conferences relating to two research projects
that resulted in the books
The Aims of Representation: Subject/Text/History (1987), edited by Krieger, and
The States of "Theory": History, Art, and Critical Discourse (1990), both published by Columbia University Press.
Series Arrangement
This series is arranged topically.
box 74, folder 11, box 91, folder 2
box 75, folder 2
Cavell, Stanley
1982-1983
box FB-5, folder 2
Felman, Shoshana
1983-1984 and undated
box 75, folder 4
Greenblatt, Stephen
1984-1985
box 75, folder 5
Habermas, Jurgen
1982-1983
box 75, folder 8
LaCapra, Dominick
1984-1985 and undated
box 75, folder 9
Lyotard, Jean-Francois
1982-1986
box 75, folder 12
Weimann, Robert
1983-1985
box 75, folder 15-16
Administrative files
1986-1987
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 76, folder 1-2, box 75, folder 17-18
Participant documentation
1986-1987
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
box 76, folder 5-18
Concentration course materials
1974-1987
General Physical Description note: 14 folders.
box 77, folder 1-2
1979
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 77, folder 3-5
1980
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 77, folder 6-8
1981
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 77, folder 9-10
1982
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 77, folder 11-12
1983-1984
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 78, folder 1-2
1985-1992
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 78, folder 3-14
Financial records
1980-1987
General Physical Description note: 12 folders.
box 78, folder 15
General catalog copy
1983-1984
box 79, folder 1
Organized research units guidelines
1990
box 79, folder 2
Post-doctorate fellowship in critical theory
1981-1987
box 79, folder 3
Proposal for a Ph.D. in critical theory
1989
University of California Humanities Research Institute 5
1986-1992
Physical Description: 0.75 Linear Feet
Series Scope and Contents Summary
This series documents Krieger's efforts to establish the Humanities Research Institute at Irvine and his stewardship of it
as Director, as well as his participation in a symposium with American and Russian colleagues.
Series Arrangement
The series is organized in three subseries:
- Subseries 5.1. Correspondence, 1986-1991.
- Subseries 5.2. Administration, 1986-1991.
- Subseries 5.3. US-USSR conferences, 1988-1992.
Correspondence Subseries 5.1.
1986-1991
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries contains correspondence between Krieger and UC and UC Irvine administrators, professors, and other scholars
and individuals. A few undated items have been placed at the end of the subseries. The subseries is arranged chronologically.
box 79, folder 5-6
1987
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
Administration Subseries 5.2.
1986-1991
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries consists primarily of UC Irvine's proposal for the establishment of the Institute on its campus, and similar
proposals from UCLA and UC Berkeley. The proposals are accompanied by correspondence from campus administrators to UC system-wide
administrators. Included are criteria for the selection of fellows to become members of the Institute, ideas for possible
project areas for the Institute, budget materials, job descriptions, brochures, and newsletters. The subseries is arranged
topically.
box 79, folder 9
Brochures, newsletters, and flyers
1987-1991 and undated
box 79, folder 10
Budget, personnel, and administrative
1987 and undated
box 79, folder 12-14
1986-1987
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 80, folder 1-2
Drafts
1987
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 80, folder 4
Reports, opening, project areas and fellows
1987 and undated
US-USSR conferences Subseries 5.3.
1988-1992
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries is comprised of correspondence, manuscripts, transcripts, and other materials relating to two HRI Conferences
on "Literature and Social Values: Soviet and American Views," held October 25-28, 1988 (at Irvine) and June 9, 1990 (at Moscow),
initiated and funded by International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX). The following academics participated in the conferences:
Henrik Birnbaum (Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA), Wayne Booth (George M. Pullman Distinguished Service
Professor of English, University of Chicago), Phyllis Franklin (Executive Director of the Modern Language Association of America),
Murray Krieger (University Professor of English, UCI; Director, UCHRI), Feliks F. Kuznetsov (Secretary of Union of Soviet
Writers; Director of A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Moscow), J. Hillis Miller (Distinguished Professor of English
and Comparative Literature, UCI; Organizer of Conference), Nikolai N. Skatov (Director, Pushkin Institute of Russian Literature,
Leningrad), Barbara Herrnstein Smith (Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke University), and Dmitry M.
Urnov (Editor-in-Chief, Problems of Literature; Senior Researcher, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Moscow). This
subseries is arranged topically by conference.
Irvine conference, transcripts
box 80, folder 5-7
English version
1988
General Physical Description note: 3 folders.
box 80, folder 10-11
Papers
1990
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 80, folder 12
Schedules, participants lists, and conference reports
1990
Topical files 6
1956-1998
Physical Description: 3.25 Linear Feet
Series Arrangement
This series is arranged in three subseries:
- Subseries 6.1. University of California, Irvine files, 1968-1989.
- Subseries 6.2. University of California files, 1974-1992.
- Subseries 6.3. General files, 1956-1998.
University of California, Irvine files Subseries 6.1.
1968-1989
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries deals with Murray Krieger's career at UC Irvine apart from those specific activities covered in Series 3 (School
of Criticism and Theory), Series 4 (Critical theory programs), and Series 5 (Humanities Research Institute), and includes
his committee work on the UCI campus. Coverage is fuller for Krieger's mid-career and later years than for his first few years
at UCI in the 1960s. The subseries is arranged topically.
box 80, folder 13
Advisory committee to UCI Fine Arts Gallery
1986-1987
box 80, folder 14
Center for International Studies
1982-1983
box 81, folder 1
Chancellor's Fellowship
1987
box 81, folder 2
Chancellor Peltason's Inauguration Committee
1984-1985
Department of English and Comparative Literature
box 81, folder 5
Stephen Shapiro tenure case
1968-1969
Conditions Governing Access note
Access to this file is restricted until 2020-01-01.
box 91, folder 4
Distinguished Faculty Lecture material
1983
box 81, folder 6
Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Committee
1975-1977
box 81, folder 7
Extraordinarius Award nomination file, Lauds and Laurels
1976
box 81, folder 8
Faculty research profile system
1976
box 81, folder 9
Focused research program on Goethe
1979-1982
box 81, folder 10
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in the history, theory, and criticism of the arts
1976-1983
box 81, folder 11
Inter-University Centre of Postgraduate Studies
1982
box 81, folder 13
Morton Bloomfield Library
1986
box 81, folder 14
Personnel office
1977-1978
box 81, folder 15
Regents' Faculty Fellowships
1975
box 81, folder 16
Search committee for UCI chancellor
1983
box 81, folder 17
Selection committee for the presidential chair
1982-1983
box 81, folder 18
University Bookstore and University Club
1983-1989
University of California files Subseries 6.2.
1974-1992
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries documents Krieger's career during the time when he accepted a one-third appointment as a professor at UCLA
in addition to his duties at UC Irvine. There is excellent coverage of his activities following his appointment by the Regents
as a University Professor in 1974, which consisted primarily of lectures and seminars on 6 campuses of the University of California.
Also included are materials documenting his service to the University as a whole, including his participation on the Executive
Committee of the Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, his service as an advisor to the University of California Press, and
his work on a University-wide committee evaluating the Press. This subseries is arranged topically.
box AV-2, item MS-C02-A001 RESTRICTED
Murray Krieger interview with Val Williams, UC radio news service
1976
General Physical Description note: 1 audiocassette
UCLA, Department of English
box 81, folder 20
Class evaluations
1975-1981
box 81, folder 21
UC Riverside Ad-Hoc Review Committee report
1976
box 81, folder 22
UC Santa Barbara, Department of English
1979
box 81, folder 23-24
UC Santa Cruz, Humanities Institute Executive Committee
1981-1986
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
University of California Press
box 82, folder 1
University of California Press Review Committee
1984-1986
box 82, folder 2-18
University professor
1974-1992
General Physical Description note: 17 folders.
General files Subseries 6.3.
1956-2001
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
This subseries contains files kept by Krieger relating to non-University of California aspects of his career. Topics include
his lecture tour of foreign countries; various appointments, job offers, and professional invitations; biographical materials;
drafts sent to Krieger by academic colleagues; and teaching materials, primarily a large transcription of his lectures on
the history of criticism from Plato to Croce. There are also four notebooks containing a student's class notes from two classes
offered by Krieger in 1960 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on "The Classic Vision and The Tragic Vision."
This subseries is arranged topically.
box 82, folder 19
Adams, Hazard, drafts
undated
box 82, folder 20, box 83, folder 1-3
Appointments, job offers, invitations, and related materials
1957-1983
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
box 83, folder 4, box 91, folder 5
Biographical materials on Murray Krieger
1975-2001
box 83, folder 5
Birnbaum, Henrik, drafts
undated
box 83, folder 7
Bloomfield, Morton, drafts
undated
box 83, folder 8
Calderwood, James L., drafts
undated
box 83, folder 9-12
Carroll, David, drafts
1988-1990 and undated
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
box 83, folder 13
Colie, Rosalie L., drafts
undated
box 83, folder 14 RESTRICTED
Derrida, Jacques, drafts
undated
Reproduction Restriction
All reproduction of materials written by Jacques Derrida must be authorized by designates of his heirs. Contact Special Collections
and Archives for more information.
box 83, folder 15
Description of project and statement of plans
1976 and undated
box 83, folder 16
Donoghue, Denis, drafts, and holograph notes by Krieger
1976 and undated
box 84, folder 1
Essays and other materials on Krieger
1956-1974 and undated
box 84, folder 2
Gelley, Alexander, drafts
1991 and undated
box 84, folder 3
Gornto, Eleanor, reader's report on
Fundamentals of Fiction, typescripts and holograph notes
undated
box 84, folder 4-5
Iser, Wolfgang, holograph notes and drafts
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 84, folder 6
Jauss, Hans Robert, drafts
1982
box 84, folder 7
Lecture tour to Germany and Yugoslavia
1981-1986
box 84, folder 8-9
Lyotard, Jean-Francois, drafts
1982 and undated
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 84, folder 10
LaCapra, Dominick, drafts
box 84, folder 11
Miller, J. Hillis, drafts
1968 and undated
box 84, folder 12
Misra, Sadananda, drafts
undated
box 84, folder 13
Newman, Jane, drafts
undated
box 84, folder 14
Nichols, Stephen G., drafts
1988
box 84, folder 15
Poster, Mark, drafts
undated
box 85, folder 2
Riffaterre, Michael, drafts
undated
box 85, folder 3
Rowe, John Carlos, drafts
undated
box 85, folder 4
Said, Edward, drafts
undated
box 85, folder 5
Schwab, Gabriele, drafts
undated
box 85, folder 6
Smith, David, Woodruff, drafts
undated
box 85, folder 7
Statement of studies accomplished and list of publications, typescripts
1960
box 85, folder 8
Stimpson, Catharine R., drafts
undated
box 85, folder 9
Symposium on critical theory, University of Michigan
1980
box 86, folder 1, box 85, folder 10-14
Transcription of "History of Criticism: Plato to Croce" lectures
undated
General Physical Description note: 6 folders.
box 86, folder 2-5
University of Illinois, student notebooks from Murray Krieger's classes on "The Classic Vision and The Tragic Vision,"
1960
General Physical Description note: 4 folders.
box 86, folder 6
Trypanis, C. A., Krieger's introduction to a lecture, holograph notes
undated
box 86, folder 7-8
United States Information Agency, lecture tour to India, Hong Kong, and People's Republic of China
1981-1985
General Physical Description note: 2 folders.
box 86, folder 9
Vivas, Eliseo, drafts
1959 and undated
box 86, folder 10
White, Hayden, drafts
undated
box 87, box 88, box 89, box 90
Annotated volumes Series 7.
1854-2000
1940-2000
Physical Description: 4 Linear Feet
Series Scope and Contents Summary
This series contains scholarly works, college textbooks, novels, plays, and collections of poetry from Murray Krieger's personal
library. Books retained in this series were either annotated by Krieger, or are inscribed to him by the author. A small number
of these books were owned by Krieger during his undergraduate and graduate education, and represent some of the earliest documentation
of his career as a literary critic.
Dates for this series are taken from the copywrites dates of the books, and do not reflect the time at which Krieger owned
them or made annotations.
Unprocessed addition 2002 Accession 2002-006
circa 1946-2000
Physical Description: 21 Linear Feet(21 records cartons)
Series Scope and Contents Summary
This accession consists of personal and professional papers of Murray Krieger retained in his office at UCI HIB. The accession
mainly consists of correspondence, teaching materials, and drafts of publications by Krieger and others.
box accn2007-008 001
Unprocessed addition 2007 Accession 2007-008
1957-2000
Physical Description: 0.5 Linear Feet(1 doc box)
Series Scope and Contents Summary
This accession consists of personal and professional papers of literary theorist Murray Krieger, including correspondence,
books, invitations, clippings, book reviews, and off-prints. Of particular interest is his correspondence with Rene Wellek.