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Principles of Literary Criticism

Principles of Literary Criticism

by I. A. Richards

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Author
Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893-1979
Title
Principles of literary criticism
Original Publication
United States: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928.
Credits
Lauren Prichard
Language
English
LoC Class
PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
Subject
Criticism
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 73827
Release Date
June 14, 2024
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.PREFACE
  4. 4.CHAPTER I The Chaos of Critical Theories
  5. 5.CHAPTER II The Phantom Æsthetic State
  6. 6.CHAPTER III The Language of Criticism
  7. 7.CHAPTER IV Communication and the Artist
  8. 8.CHAPTER V The Critics’ Concern with Value
  9. 9.CHAPTER VI Value as an Ultimate Idea
  10. 10.CHAPTER VII A Psychological Theory of Value
  11. 11.CHAPTER VIII Art and Morals
  12. 12.CHAPTER IX Actual and Possible Misapprehensions
  13. 13.CHAPTER X Poetry for Poetry’s Sake
  14. 14.CHAPTER XI A Sketch for a Psychology
  15. 15.CHAPTER XII Pleasure
  16. 16.CHAPTER XIII Emotion and the Cœnesthesia
  17. 17.CHAPTER XIV Memory
  18. 18.CHAPTER XV Attitudes
  19. 19.CHAPTER XVI The Analysis of a Poem
  20. 20.CHAPTER XVII Rhythm and Metre
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII On Looking at a Picture
  22. 22.CHAPTER XIX Sculpture and the Construction of Form
  23. 23.CHAPTER XX The Impasse of Musical Theory
  24. 24.CHAPTER XXI A Theory of Communication
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXII The Availability of the Poet’s Experience
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXIII Tolstoy’s Infection Theory
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXIV The Normality of the Artist
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXV Badness in Poetry
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXVI Judgment and Divergent Readings
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXVII Levels of Response and the Width of Appeal
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXVIII The Allusiveness of Modern Poetry
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXIX Permanence as a Criterion
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXX The Definition of a Poem
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXXI Art, Play, and Civilisation
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXXII The Imagination
  36. 36.CHAPTER XXXIII Truth and Revelation Theories
  37. 37.CHAPTER XXXIV The Two Uses of Language
  38. 38.CHAPTER XXXV Poetry and Beliefs
  39. 39.APPENDIX A. On Value
  40. 40.APPENDIX B. THE POETRY OF T. S. ELIOT
  41. 41.NOTES.

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