Language of Criticism - Couverture rigide

Casey, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0416289703 ISBN 13 : 9780416289701

Editeur : Methuen young books, 1966

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Methuen young books
• Date d'édition: 1966
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0416289703
• ISBN 13: 9780416289701
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible