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I. A. Richards (Routledge Revivals)

Author: John Paul Russo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-11

Total Pages: 844

ISBN-13: 1317527798

A pioneering critic, educator, and poet, I. A. Richards (1893-1979) helped the English-speaking world decide not only what to read but how to read it. Acknowledged "father" of New Criticism, he produced the most systematic body of critical writing in the English language since Coleridge. His method of close reading dominated the English-speaking classroom for half a century. John Paul Russo draws on close personal acquaintance with Richards as well as on unpublished materials, correspondence, and interviews, to write the first biography (originally published in 1989) of one of last century’s most influential and many-sided men of letters.

The Language of Criticism (Routledge Revivals)

Author: John Casey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 0415664942

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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.

I. A. Richards (Routledge Revivals)

Author: John Paul Russo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-11

Total Pages: 867

ISBN-13: 1317527801

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The Harvest of Tragedy (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Thomas Rice Henn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1136472207

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Upon initial publication in 1956, this book was an attempt to re-state certain problems concerning the aesthetics and ethics of the tragic form; to examine these in relation to contemporary work in psychology and anthropology; to enquire into the significance of ‘the fact or experience called tragedy’ in the modern world; and to suggest a synthesis in terms of the Christian tradition. This is a reissue of the corrected second edition of the work, first published in 1966.

Routledge Revivals: Essays on Style and Language (1966)

Author: Roger Fowler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1351347691

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First published in 1966, this book is contributed to by authors who share an interest in the literary uses of language. The book gives a close analysis of the language of literature contributed to by critics and linguists, examining linguistic theory and poetry, and as part of this the rhythm and metre of English poetry is deconstructed. Language and its emotive structure is analysed, while the middle chapters of the book address the interaction of linguistic dimensions. Two medievalist scholars conclude the volume, giving a well-rounded examination to the broad and complex study of literary style in the English language. This book is suitable for students and scholars concerned with English literature and linguistics.

Routledge Revivals: Politics

Author: Routledge

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Published: 2011-05-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780415691840

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This 20 volume Routledge Revivals collection brings together a selection of groundbreaking Politics titles, from the rich and diverse Routledge backlist. With titles published between 1920 and 1993, this is a truly wide-ranging selection, encompassing works by distinguished authors such as: John Gray, Susan Strange, Raymond Plant, Brian Barry and Max Beloff. Dealing with everything from Liberalism to Bolshevism, from theories of political philosophy to international political economy, foreign policy and social welfare, this set offers a collection of the best of Routledge publishing in the field of Politics from across the Twentieth Century. Please note that all titles have been previously available for sale individually through the Routledge Revivals programme.

Beyond the Letter (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Israel Scheffler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1136961631

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Ambiguity, vagueness and metaphor are pervasive features of language, deserving of systematic study in their own right. Yet they have frequently been considered mere deviations from ideal language or obstacles to be avoided in the construction of scientific systems. First published in 1979, Beyond the Letter offers a consecutive study of these features from a philosphical point of view, providing analyses of each and treating their relations to one another. Addressed to the fundamental task of logical and semantic explanation, the book employs an inscriptional methodology in the attempt to avoid prevalent forms of question-begging, and, further, in the conviction that sparseness of assumption often reveals points of theoretical interest irrespective of methodolgical preference. The author distinguishes and analyses several varieties of ambiguity, developing new semantic notions in the process; recasts the philosophical treatment of vagueness in the light of recent criticisms of analyticity; discusses the bearing of vagueness on logic; and provides a systematic critique of major recent interpretations of metaphor, developing a revised version of contextualism.

The Critical Twilight (Routledge Revivals)

Author: John Fekete

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-07

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1317638468

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First published in 1977, this book was the first to map extensively the ideological typography of the Anglo-American tradition of literary theory. It interrogates, comprehensively and in detail, the assumptions and categorical development within critical ideas from I. A. Richards and T. S. Eliot, through John Crowe Ransom and the New Criticism, to Northrop Frye and Marshall NcLuhan. This analysis reveals the Anglo-American tradition of literary-cultural theory is most properly intelligible within the overall field of social consciousness as an ideology of progressive cultural rationalization. Against a background of ideological development since nineteenth-century Romanticism, John Fekete illuminates the boundaries of literary ideology in relation to the shapes and changes of modern culture and society.

Modernism (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Peter Faulkner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13: 1135036772

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First published in 1977, this book focuses on Modernism, one of the most frequently used terms in the discussion of twentieth-century literature and culture. It provides an historical account of the concept, showing the relation of Modernism to Victorian culture and uses the work of Henry James and W. B. Yeats in its analysis. The text focuses on the time period between 1910 and 1930 and considers the criticism of T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, Joyce’s Ulysses, Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and the complex relationship of D. H. Lawrence to Modernism. The author also includes a section on developments since 1930 to show both the value of Modernism as a critical term, and the problems of achieving an exact usage.