Download or read book Practical Criticism V 4 written by I. A Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume four of ten of the selected works of I.A. Richards from 1919 to 1938. Originally published in 1929, this study looks at literary judgement. The ‘Practical Criticism’ experiment began to take shape in late 1923. A. C. Benson, then Master of Magdalene College, records in his diary for the 13th of October ‘that at dinner Richards had suggested as a good examination for English students to print five extracts of poetry and prose, with no clue as to author and date, and containing one really worthless piece – and ask for comments and opinion’. This volume is the evidence of that experiment.
Download or read book Practical Criticism V 4 written by I. A Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume four of ten of the selected works of I.A. Richards from 1919 to 1938. Originally published in 1929, this study looks at literary judgement. The ‘Practical Criticism’ experiment began to take shape in late 1923. A. C. Benson, then Master of Magdalene College, records in his diary for the 13th of October ‘that at dinner Richards had suggested as a good examination for English students to print five extracts of poetry and prose, with no clue as to author and date, and containing one really worthless piece – and ask for comments and opinion’. This volume is the evidence of that experiment.
Download or read book Practical Criticism written by I. A. Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Practice of Criticism written by D. H. Rawlinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1968-11-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people associate 'practical criticism' with a short-sighted brand of literary analysis which kills a student's interest in literature by drilling him to concentrate narrowly on verbal detail. Handled properly, however, practical criticism can play a vital part in a literature course, especially in the crucial stages in the last years at schools or first university year when many students are coming to literature seriously for the first time. This 1968 book is a useful introduction to practical criticism for students. It offers an impressive range of closely analysed passages and exercises, in prose and verse. Mr Rawlinson considers the problems of the beginner, and discussed the mistakes an misconceptions that sometimes spoil practical criticism courses. In his general discussion of topics such as rhythm, tone and imagery, the author is careful not to be too abstract; throughout the book precept is reinforced by example, theory by practice.
Download or read book Practical Criticism written by Ivor Armstrong Richards and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-04 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IA Richards¿ Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment comprised something of a departure from Richards¿ earlier pieces of literary theory, including The Meaning of Meaning, with C.K. Ogden) and Principles of Literary Criticism. Where these earlier works were concerned with more hypothetical examples of interpretation, Richards wanted Practical Criticism to focus on actual readings done by actual readers. Practical Criticism, Richards wrote, was ¿the record of a piece of field-work in comparative ideology." He set three goals for this work: First, to introduce a new kind of documentation to those who are interested in the contemporary state of culture¿Secondly, to provide a new technique for those who wish to discover for themselves what they think and feel about poetry¿Thirdly, to prepare the way for education methods more efficient than those we use now¿to understand what we hear and read. The method Richards employed to achieve these goals was fairly straightforward but unprecedented in literary criticism. Richards hope was to move literary criticism away from historical and psychological studies of authors and reconvene it around the cognitive processes of ¿the general reader.¿ Practical Criticism is a catalogue of these readers¿ interpretations, along with Richards¿ comments about their interpretations and conclusions about his study¿s findings. Richards¿ approach in Practical Criticism proved to be enormously influential¿not just in its methodological approach but also in its cognitivist approach to literary form and aesthetic experience. ¿There is no gap,¿ Richards wrote, ¿between our everyday emotional life and the material of poetry. The verbal expression of this life, at its finest, is forced to use the technique of poetry; that is the only essential difference".
Download or read book Practical Criticism written by Ivor Armstrong Richards and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Context for Practical Criticism written by William Darwin Swain and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Principles of Literary Criticism written by Ivor Armstrong Richards and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Volume 4 The Eighteenth Century written by George Alexander Kennedy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive 1997 account of eighteenth-century literary criticism is now available in paperback.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Volume 4 The Eighteenth Century written by H. B. Nisbet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive 1997 account of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800. Unlike previous histories, it is not just a chronological survey of critical writing, but a multidisciplinary investigation of how the understanding of literature and its various genres was transformed, at the start of the modern era, by developments in philosophy, psychology, the natural sciences, linguistics, and other disciplines, as well as in society at large. In the process, modern literary theory - at first often implicit in literary texts themselves - emancipated itself from classical poetics and rhetoric, and literary criticism emerged as a full-time professional activity catering for an expanding literate public. The volume is international both in coverage and in authorship. Extensive bibliographies provide guidance for further specialised study.
Download or read book Practical Criticism written by Ivor Armstrong Richards and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Teaching Archive written by Rachel Sagner Buurma and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Teaching Archive shows us a series of major literary thinkers in a place we seldom remember them inhabiting: the classroom. Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan open up “the teaching archive”—the syllabuses, course descriptions, lecture notes, and class assignments—of critics and scholars including T. S. Eliot, Caroline Spurgeon, I. A. Richards, Edith Rickert, J. Saunders Redding, Edmund Wilson, Cleanth Brooks, Josephine Miles, and Simon J. Ortiz. This new history of English rewrites what we know about the discipline by showing how students helped write foundational works of literary criticism and how English classes at community colleges and HBCUs pioneered the reading methods and expanded canons that came only belatedly to the Ivy League. It reminds us that research and teaching, which institutions often imagine as separate, have always been intertwined in practice. In a contemporary moment of humanities defunding, the casualization of teaching, and the privatization of pedagogy, The Teaching Archive offers a more accurate view of the work we have done in the past and must continue to do in the future.
Download or read book Practical Criticism written by Martin Coyle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1995-11-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical criticism underlies everything students of English literature do. It is a way of reading the text closely, but with a grasp of the larger issues involved. This book is a practical, step-by-step guide which shows the student how to gain a sense of what a poem or passage of prose or drama is about, how to analyse it and how to build a successful essay. Easy to read and uncluttered by technical vocabulary, it will prove an invaluable resource for any student.
Download or read book Practical Criticism written by John W. Alexander and published by IVP Books. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coleridge On Imagination V 6 written by John Constable and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixth volume of his Selected Works, I. A. Richards focuses on the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Download or read book Seven Types of Ambiguity written by William Empson and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1966 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines seven types of ambiguity, providing examples of it in the writings of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and T.S. Eliot.
Download or read book Exercises in Practical Criticism written by John O'Neill and published by Hodder Gibson. This book was released on 1971 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
