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      The Language of Criticism (Routledge Revivals)
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      The Language of Criticism (Routledge Revivals)

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      The Language of Criticism (Routledge Revivals) book

      ByJohn Casey
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1966
      eBook Published 15 April 2011
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203818534
      Pages 218
      eBook ISBN 9780203818534
      Subjects Humanities, Language & Literature
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      Casey, J. (1966). The Language of Criticism (Routledge Revivals) (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203818534

      ABSTRACT

      First published in 1966, the Language of Criticism was the first systematic attempt to understand literary criticism through the methods of linguistic philosophy and the later work of Wittgenstein. Literary critical and aesthetic judgements are rational, but are not to be explained by scientific methods. Criticism discovers reasons for a response, rather than causes, and is a rational procedure, rather than the expression of simply subjective taste, or of ideology, or of the power relations of society.

      The book aims at a philosophical justification of the tradition of practical criticism that runs from Matthew Arnold, through T.S.Eliot to I.A.Richards, William Empson, F.R.Leavis and the American New Critics. It argues that the close reading of texts moves justifiably from text to world, from aesthetic to ethical valuation. In this it differs radically from the schools of "theory" that have recently dominated the humanities.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter I|34 pages

      Wittgenstein And The Philosophy Of Criticism

      chapter II|26 pages

      Values

      chapter III|27 pages

      Art And Feeling I – Some Aestheticians

      chapter IV|17 pages

      Art And Feeling 2 – T. S. Eliot

      chapter V|15 pages

      Style And Feeling: Middleton Murry

      chapter VI|20 pages

      Reason Defended: Yvor Winters And The Nature Of Criticism

      chapter VII|13 pages

      A ‘Science’ Of Criticism: Northrop Frye

      chapter VIII|26 pages

      Object, Feeling And Judgement: F. R. Leavis

      chapter IX|20 pages

      Art And Morality

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