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I.A. Richards: Selected Works 1919-1938 book cover

1st Edition

I.A. Richards: Selected Works 1919-1938

Edited By John Constable
3824 Pages
by Routledge

I. A. Richards was the most influential of the first generation of academic literary theorists. This definitive collection of his writing between 1919 and 1938 shows that Richards' position was distinct from the emerging consensus in university literary education. Richards is often misunderstood as a master of a now superseded school of academic criticism and a forerunner of an institutionalised... Read more

Volume I. Foundations of Aesthetics: [0-415-21732-6]

Volume II. The Meaning of Meaning: [0-415-21733-4]

Volume III. Principles of Literary Criticism and Science and Poetry: [0-415-21734-2]

Volume IV. Practical Criticism: [0-415-21735-0]

Volume V. Mencius on the Mind: [0-415-21736-9]

Volume VI. Coleridge on the Imagination: [0-415-21737-7]

Volume VII. The Philosophy of Rhetoric: [0-415-21738-5]

Volume VIII. Interpretation in Teaching: [0-415-21739-3]

Volume IX. Collected Papers of I. A. Richards 1919-1938: [0-415-21740-7]

Volume X. I. A. Richards and his Critics: [0-415-21741-5]:

Biography

John Constable was formerly at the University of Kyoto

'Our knowledge in these areas has not yet progressed yet to such an extent as to leave Richards in need of exhumation, and the publication of his Selected Works 1919-38, covering the most significant phase in his career, is evidence of his continuing importance'. -- David West, Journal of Language and Literature

'...this handsome, meticulously prepared edition of his writings represents an intellectual event of some magnitude' --Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books

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