I.A. Richards

Principles of Literary Criticism

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Produktbeschreibung

Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern literary criticism. He enthused a generation of writers and readers and was an influential supporter of the young T.S. Eliot. Principles of Literary Criticism was the text that first established his reputation and pioneered the movement that became known as the 'New Criticism'. Highly controversial when first published, Principles of Literary Criticism remains a work which no one with a serious interest in literature can afford to ignore.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 319g
• ISBN-13: 9781138123748
• ISBN-10: 1138123749
• Artikelnr.: 43678033

Autorenporträt

I. A. Richards (1893-1979). One of the most influential literary critics of the twentieth century. He taught at the University of Cambridge from 1922 before moving to Harvard University, where, from 1944, he was Professor of English Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Chaos of Critical Theories
2. The Phantom Aesthetic State
3. The Language of Criticism
4. Communication and the Artist
5. The Critics' Concern with Value
6. Value as an Ultimate Idea
7. A Psychological Theory of Value
8. Art and Morals
9. Actual and Possible Misapprehensions
10. Poetry for Poetry's Sake
11. A Sketch for a Psychology
12. Pleasure
13. Emotion and the Coenesthesia
14. Memory
15. Attitudes
16. The Analysis of a Poem
17. Rhythm and Metre
18. On Looking at a Picture
19. Sculpture and the Construction of Form
20. The Impasse of Musical Theory
21. A Theory of Communication
22. The Availability of the Poet's Experience
23. Tolstoy's Infection Theory
24. The Normality of the Artist
25. Badness in Poetry
26. Judgement and Divergent Readings
27. Levels of Response and the Width of Appeal
28. The Allusiveness of Modern Poetry
29. Permanence as a Criterion
30. The Definition of a Poem
31. Art
Play
and Civilization
32. The Imagination
33. Truth and Revelation Theories
34. The Two Uses of Language
35. Poetry and Beliefs
Appendix A: On Value
Appendix B: The Poetry of T. S. Eliot
Index

Rezensionen

'To us Richards was infinitely more than a brilliantly new literary critic: he was our guide, our evangelist, who revealed to us, in a succession of astounding lightning flashes, the entire expanse of the Modern World.' - Christopher Isherwood

'Principles of Literary Criticism is an important contribution to the rehabilitation of English criticism - perhaps because of its sustained nature, the most important contribution yet made. Mr Richards begins with an account of the present chaos of critical theories and follows with an analysis of the fallacy in modern aesthetics.' - Herbert Read, Criterion

'Richards is simply the most infulential theorist of the century.' - George Watson, The Literary Critics