ABSTRACT

This book, first published in 1965, provides an interdisciplinary approach to the work of I. A. Richards. This study is particularly concerned with ideas about education, literary theory, language, philosophy and psychology, and focuses on many of Richard’s most important works, including The Meaning of Meaning and The Philosophy of Rhetoric.

chapter I|9 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|5 pages

Manifesto

chapter 4|11 pages

Cure: Cultivating the Correct Awareness

chapter 5|3 pages

Cure: Therapeutic Exercises

part III|2 pages

The Science of Symbols Applied to Literature

chapter 2|3 pages

Richards' Theory of Value

chapter 3|5 pages

Theory of Value Applied to Art

chapter 4|4 pages

Why Poetry is Good for Us

chapter 5|10 pages

Poetry is not Science

chapter 6|4 pages

A note on "Sincerity"

chapter 1|4 pages

Translation and Multiple Definition

chapter 3|3 pages

A Romantic Contrast: Imagination v. Fancy

chapter 4|4 pages

Three Fusions

chapter 5|5 pages

Syntax and the Subconscious

chapter 6|5 pages

"Coalescence of Subject and Object"

chapter 7|6 pages

Imagination and Value

chapter 3|6 pages

Grammar as Aunt Sally

chapter 4|4 pages

Only Microscopic Grammar is Good

chapter 5|2 pages

But was Richards Right?

chapter 6|8 pages

Logic at School

chapter 7|14 pages

How to Read a Page, or Word by Word

chapter 1|2 pages

How Far Do We Understand One Another?

chapter 3|18 pages

How Philosophers Have Understood Richards

chapter 1|7 pages

An Empson-Eye View

chapter 2|5 pages

The New Critics

chapter 3|12 pages

How Ransom Understood the Early Books

chapter 4|2 pages

Richards, the "Negative Platonist"

chapter 5|7 pages

Allen Tate, Negative Platonist?

chapter 8|8 pages

Further Errors

chapter 9|12 pages

Theory of Comprehension Restated

part VIII|1 pages

Man, Nature and Society

chapter 1|5 pages

Transfer and Growth

chapter 2|4 pages

Richards' Ethics

chapter 3|6 pages

Society and the Individual

chapter 2|4 pages

The Functions of Language

chapter 3|11 pages

The Context Theory of Meaning

chapter 4|7 pages

Language as Racial Experience

chapter 5|9 pages

Language is what we think in

chapter 6|4 pages

Language-Theory and Thinking-Skills

chapter 1|8 pages

Ambiguity

chapter 2|7 pages

Confusing Definitions with Assertions

chapter 3|6 pages

Word Magic and Abstractionism

chapter 4|10 pages

Theory, Practice, Bias

part XI|3 pages

Genesis and Revelation (II)

chapter 1|4 pages

A Materialist Formulation of Religion

chapter 2|5 pages

The Freedom of the Self in Theory

chapter 3|5 pages

The Freedom of the Self in Practice

chapter 4|9 pages

Authority and the Self