Author: Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong) [1893-1979]
Title: Principles of Literary Criticism
Description: London, Routledge, (1955). 14th impr. orig. cloth. 22x15cm, vi,298 pp. Series: International Library of Psychology, Philosophy, and Scientific Method. Rubbed. Some binding scratches. Good. ¶ Contents: The Chaos of Critical Theories; The Phantom Aesthetic State; The Language of Criticism; Communication and the Artist; The Critics' Concern with Value; A Psycholagical Theory of Value; Art and Morals; Actual and Posseble Misapprehensions; Poetry for Poetry's Sake; A Sketch for a Psychology; Pleasure; Emotion and the Coenesthesia; Memory; Apttitudes; The Analysis of a Poem; Rhythm and Metre; On Looking at a Picture; Sculpture and the Construction of Fortm; 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.

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