Principles of Literary Criticism

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ISBN: 9780203164747 | 0203164741
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Copyright: 7/13/2003

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Reissue of this classic work in the development of modern criticism which argues that literary criticism is essentially a branch of psychology, dealing with the states of mind induced by the experiences communicated by art.

Preface	p. vii
The Chaos of Critical Theories	p. 1
The Phantom Aesthetic State	p. 7
The Language of Criticism	p. 14
Communication and the Artist	p. 20
The Critics' Concern with Value	p. 29
Value as an Ultimate Idea	p. 33
A Psychological Theory of Value	p. 39
Art and Morals	p. 52
Actual and Possible Misapprehensions	p. 57
Poetry for Poetry's Sake	p. 64
A Sketch for a Psychology	p. 73
Pleasure	p. 83
Emotion and the Coenesthesia	p. 89
Memory	p. 94
Attitudes	p. 98
The Analysis of a Poem	p. 104
Rhythm and Metre	p. 122
On Looking at a Picture	p. 134
Sculpture and the Construction of Form	p. 147
The Impasse of Musical Theory	p. 154
A Theory of Communication	p. 160
The Availability of the Poet's Experience	p. 165
Tolstoy's Infection Theory	p. 171
The Normality of the Artist	p. 176
Badness in Poetry	p. 185
Judgement and Divergent Readings	p. 192
Levels of Response and the Width of Appeal	p. 196
The Allusiveness of Modern Poetry	p. 200
Permanence as a Criterion	p. 206
The Definition of a Poem	p. 209
Art, Play, and Civilization	p. 214
The Imagination	p. 224
Truth and Revelation Theories	p. 237
The Two Uses of Language	p. 244
Poetry and Beliefs	p. 255
	p. 271
	p. 273
Index	p. 279
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