Ivor Armstrong Richards

I. A. Richards

Edward William Dolch

Professor Richards' definition of rhetoric is based on a practical question: how do words work in discourse? To answer this question, he examines the interaction of words with each other and with their contexts, showing how a continual synthesis of meaning, or "principle of metaphor", gives life to discussion. (Philosophy)

The Philosophy of Rhetoric

With an alertness to the psychological and emotional effects of language, this work aims to present an understanding both of literature and of the role of the reader.

Principles of Literary Criticism

This illuminating collection documents the life and friendships of one of the century's most influential philosophers of language and aesthetics. Following Richards's career from his first undergraduate days at Magdalene College in 1911, to the end of his life at Cambridge, the letters describe his epoch-making lectures and books of the twenties and thirties, his years of campaigning in the Far East on behalf of Basic English, and his life as Chair at Harvard, in which he speaks of Eliot, Wittgenstein, Chairman Mao, and Robert Lowell, among others.

Selected Letters of I.A. Richards, CH

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Course in Efficient Reading, with an Introductio to 100 Great Words

How to Read a Page

A Course in Effective Reading, with an Introduction to a Hundred Great Words

This volume, publicized to celebrate I.A. Richards's 80th birthday, comprises seventeen essay, some of which are hitherto unpublished. The essays show considerable variety in subject-matter: linguistics, semantics, philosophy and practical criticism -- Back cover.

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