Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment - Image 1

Price loading...

Routledge Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment

Name: Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment
Brand: Routledge

black & white illustrations

Poetry & Poets

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

Linguist, critic, poet, psychologist, I. A. Richards (1893-1979) was one of the great polymaths of the twentieth century. He is best known, however, as one of the founders of modern literary critical theory. Richards revolutionized criticism by turning away from biographical and historical readings as well as from the aesthetic impressionism. Seeking a more exacting approach, he analyzed literary texts as syntactical structures that could be broken down into smaller interacting verbal units of meaning. Practical Criticism, first published in 1929, is a landmark volume in demonstrating this method.Practical Criticism was born of an experiment Richards undertook to discern the psychological foundations of reading and interpretation and a means for readers to discover how they think and feel about poetry. He submitted thirteen poems for analysis, without date or author given, to some four hundred of his Cambridge students. Poets of stature went in undifferentiated from obscure and forgotten figures. The results were mixed at best, with many of the interpretations shockingly bad. These readings were based, in large part, not on the texts themselves but on then-current opinions, presuppositions, theories, and beliefs. The results led Richards to define a set of interrelated mental obstacles to intelligent and accurate reading including "irrelevant associations," "stock responses," "sentimentality," and a general misunderstanding of the purpose or "doctrine" of poetry.Richards' concerns in Practical Criticism went well beyond the merely formal. In the humanist tradition, he believed that the ability to read critically and use language truthfully was culturally regenerative, a necessary skill in the modern world of mass-produced art and advertising. This classic volume will be of interest to teachers of literature, cultural studies specialists, and intellectual historians.

Key Features

Used Book in Good Condition

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Model: black & white illustrations
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0765808439
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Poetry & Poets
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 September 2004
Listed Since: 09 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Practical Criticism V 4: A Study of Literary Judgement: 04 (I.A. Richards: Selected Works 1919-1938)

I. A. Richards (Routledge Revivals): His Life and Work

I.A. Richards: Selected Works 1919-1938 (Routledge Library Editions)

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: A Reader

Literature and the Critics: Developing Responses to Texts

Bloomsbury Academic - I. A. Richards and Cognitive Stylistics

Routledge Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: A Reader

A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present

On Modern Poetry: From Theory to Total Criticism

Literature in our Lives: Talking About Texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman

Springer Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism

The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism

Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry

Johnson's Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment (Studies in Early Modern English Literature)

Ridiculous Critics: Augustan Mockery of Critical Judgment

Understanding Fiction

Literary Criticism: A Short History: Modern Criticism: 4

Modernism: 9 (Blackwell Guides to Criticism)

Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens

The Ideal Reader: Proust, Freud, and European Culture - Routledge

Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader

The Analyst's Ear and the Critic's Eye: Rethinking Psychoanalysis and Literature

The Literary Theory Toolkit: A Compendium of Concepts and Methods

Critical Rhythm: The Poetics of a Literary Life Form (Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics)