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Principles of literary criticism

by I. A. Richards

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — The Chaos of Critical Theories
  3. 3Chapter II — The Phantom Æsthetic State
  4. 4Chapter III — The Language of Criticism
  5. 5Chapter IV — Communication and the Artist
  6. 6Chapter V — The Critics’ Concern With Value
  7. 7Chapter VI — Value as an Ultimate Idea
  8. 8Chapter VII — A Psychological Theory of Value
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Art and Morals
  10. 10Chapter IX — Actual and Possible Misapprehensions
  11. 11Chapter X — Poetry for Poetry’s Sake
  12. 12Chapter XI — A Sketch for a Psychology
  13. 13Chapter XII — Pleasure
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Emotion and the Cœnesthesia
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Memory
  16. 16Chapter XV — Attitudes
  17. 17Chapter XVI — The Analysis of a Poem
  18. 18Chapter XVII — Rhythm and Metre
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — On Looking at a Picture
  20. 20Chapter XIX — Sculpture and the Construction of Form
  21. 21Chapter XX — The Impasse of Musical Theory
  22. 22Chapter XXI — A Theory of Communication
  23. 23Chapter XXII — The Availability of the Poet’s Experience
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — Tolstoy’s Infection Theory
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — The Normality of the Artist
  26. 26Chapter XXV — Badness in Poetry
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — Judgment and Divergent Readings
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — Levels of Response and the Width of Appeal
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — The Allusiveness of Modern Poetry
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — Permanence as a Criterion
  31. 31Chapter XXX — The Definition of a Poem
  32. 32Chapter XXXI — Art, Play, and Civilisation
  33. 33Chapter XXXII — The Imagination
  34. 34Chapter XXXIII — Truth and Revelation Theories
  35. 35Chapter XXXIV — The Two Uses of Language
  36. 36Chapter XXXV — Poetry and Beliefs
  37. 37Appendix A. on Value
  38. 38Appendix B — The Poetry of T. S. Eliot

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