ABSTRACT

First Published in 2001. This is Volume 3 of the Selected Works of I.A. Richards from 1919 to 1938 and concerns itself with the principles of literary criticism from 1924.

part 1|253 pages

Principles of Literary Criticism

chapter |4 pages

Preface

chapter 1|5 pages

The Chaos of Critical Theories

chapter 2|7 pages

The Phantom Aesthetic State

chapter 3|6 pages

The Language of Criticism

chapter 4|8 pages

Communication and the Artist

chapter 5|4 pages

The Critics' Concern with Value

chapter 6|5 pages

Value as an Ultimate Idea

chapter 7|12 pages

A Psychological Theory of Value 1

chapter 8|4 pages

Art and Morals

chapter 9|7 pages

Actual and Possible Misapprehensions

chapter 10|8 pages

Poetry for Poetry's Sake

chapter 11|9 pages

A Sketch for a Psychology

chapter 12|6 pages

Pleasure

chapter 13|5 pages

Emotion and the Coenesthesia

chapter 14|3 pages

Memory

chapter 15|6 pages

Attitudes

chapter 16|17 pages

The Analysis of a Poem

chapter 17|11 pages

Rhythm and Metre

chapter 18|12 pages

On Looking at a Picture

chapter 19|6 pages

Sculpture and the Construction of Form

chapter 20|6 pages

The Impasse of Musical Theory

chapter 21|5 pages

A Theory of Communication

chapter 22|5 pages

The Availability of the Poet's Experience

chapter 23|4 pages

Tolstoy's Infection Theory

chapter 24|8 pages

The Normality of the Artist

chapter 25|7 pages

Badness in Poetry

chapter 26|3 pages

Judgement and Divergent Readings

chapter 27|4 pages

Levels of Response and the Width of Appeal

chapter 28|5 pages

The Allusiveness of Modern Poetry

chapter 29|3 pages

Permanence as a Criterion

chapter 30|5 pages

The Definition of a Poem

chapter 31|9 pages

Art, Play, and Civilization

chapter 32|12 pages

The Imagination

chapter 33|6 pages

Truth and Revelation Theories

chapter 34|10 pages

The Two Uses of Language

chapter 35|14 pages

Poetry and Beliefs