The Language of Criticism (Routledge Revivals) Routledge Revivals Series
Auteur : Casey John
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.
1. Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Criticism 2. Values 3. Art and Feeling 1 - Some Aestheticians 4. Art and Feeling 2 - T. S. Elliot 5. Style and Feeling: Middleton Murray 6. Reason Defended: Yvor Winters and the Nature of Criticism 7. A 'Science' of Criticim: Northrop Frye 8. Object, Feeling and Judgement: F. R. Leavis 9. Art and Morality
Date de parution : 04-2011
13.8x21.6 cm
Date de parution : 06-2012
Ouvrage de 218 p.
13.8x21.6 cm
Thèmes de The Language of Criticism (Routledge Revivals) :
Mots-clés :
yvor; winters; objective; correlative; king; lear; romantic; expressionism; clive; bell; Young Men; Vice Versa; Yvor Winters; Mrs Foot; Wittgenstein's Treatment; Total Speech Situation; Total Speech Act; Key Words; Fairy Tale; Emotional Equivalent; Frye's Archetypes; Miss Anscombe; Intensional Object; Evening Star; Eliot's Theory; Objective Correlative; Ultima Thule; Douay Version; Qualitative Feel; Pons Asinorum; Oedipus Coloneus; Frye's Attempt; Frye's Scheme; Psycho Analytic Interpretation; Idle Tears