Practical Criticism: A Study Of Literary Judgment – A Twentieth-Century Landmark in the Psychology of Examining Literature

Richards, I. A.

ISBN 10: 0156736268 / ISBN 13: 9780156736268

Published by Harper Perennial, 1956

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Practical Criticism: A Study Of Literary Judgment ? A Twentieth-Century Landmark in the Psychology of Examining Literature
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication Date: 1956
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156736268
• ISBN 13: 9780156736268
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A landmark of twentieth-century criticism that provided new standards and new techniques for examining literature. "Richards is a master of the psychology of criticism" (Saturday Review). Index.

About the Author

Ivor Armstrong Richards (26 February 1893 in Sandbach, Cheshire – 7 September 1979 in Cambridge) was an influential English literary critic and rhetorician. His books, especially The Meaning of Meaning, Principles of Literary Criticism, Practical Criticism, and The Philosophy of Rhetoric, proved to be founding influences for the New Criticism. The concept of 'practical criticism' led in time to the practices of close reading, what is often thought of as the beginning of modern literary criticism. Richards is regularly considered one of the founders of the contemporary study of literature in English.