Richards on Rhetoric. I.A. Richards: Selected Essays (1929-1974)

24x16cm, xiv,287 pp Contents: Beginnings and Transitions: I.A. Richards Interviewed by Reuben Brower; Practical Criticism; An Experiment in Criticism; Towards a Technique for Comparative Studies; Mencius Through the Looking-Glass; How to Read a Page; The Philosophy of Rhetoric; The First Three Liberal Arts; The Essential and the Accidental, and Freedom in Definition; A Study of Misunderstanding and Its Remedies; A Context Theory of Meaning and Types of Context; The Coalescence of Subject and Object; Motivation; The Composing Mind; The Meanings of Meaning; Thoughts, Words, and Things; Meanings Anew; Realism, Nominalism, Conceptualism/Logic; Metaphysics, Psychology; Toward a Theory of Comprehending; Meanings as Instruments; Some Glances at Current Linguistics; Powers and Limits of Signs; Design for Escape; General Education in the Humanities; Toward a More Synoptic View; Literature, Oral-Aural and Optical; The Reign of Writing; Learning and Looking; Paraphrasing in Basic; Sens/Sits.