Principles of literary criticism / I.A. Richards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893-1979.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Routledge classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 283 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

Summary:

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'. Through a powerful presentation of the need to read critically and creatively, with an alertness to the psychological and emotional effects of language, Richards presented a powerful new understanding both of literature and of the role of the reader. 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.

Contents:

1. The Chaos of Critical Theories

2. The Phantom Aesthetic State

3. The Language of Critism

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 Revalation Theories

34. The Two Users of Language

35. Poetry and Beliefs

App. B. The Poetry of T.S. Eliot.

Notes:

Originally published: London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1924.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415254027

9780415254021

OCLC:

47986868