Principles of literary criticism
By: by I. A. Richards.
Edition: 2d ed.
Series: International library of psychology, philosophy and scientific method
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace
Published: 1926
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Criticism
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The chaos of critical theories -- The phantom esthetic state -- The language of criticism -- Communication and the artist -- The critics’ concern with value -- Value as an ultimate idea -- A psychological theory of value -- Art and morals -- Actual and possible misapprehensions -- Poetry for poetry’s sake -- A sketch for a psychology -- Pleasure -- Emotion and the cœnesthesia -- Memory -- Attitudes -- The analysis of a poem -- Rhythm and metre -- On looking at a picture -- Sculpture and the construction of form -- The impasse of musical theory -- A theory of communication -- The availability of the poet’s experience -- Tolstoy’s infection theory -- The normality of the artist -- Badness in poetry -- Judgment and divergent readings -- Levels of response and the width of appeal -- The allusiveness of modern poetry -- Permanence as a criterion -- The definition of a poem -- Art, play, and civilisation -- The imagination -- Truth and revelation theories -- The two uses of language -- Poetry and beliefs -- Appendix A : on value -- Appendix b : on Mr. Eliot’s poetry.