I. A. Richards (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Paul Russo
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Intellectual biography
- Time of Work: 1893-1979
- Setting: Cambridge, England; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and China
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Intellectuals, Literature, Education or educators, Social life, England or English people, Criticism, English language, China or Chinese people
- Locales: Cambridge, MA, China, Cambridge, England
Rigorous theoreticians of literature are exceedingly rare. The virtual explosion in literary theory since the 1960’s has tended to obscure the fact that comparatively few fundamental advances have been achieved in literary science since the 1920’s and 1930’s. This is especially true in the Anglophone world. With the possible exception of the subdiscipline of narratology, only Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism (1957) comes immediately to mind as a major, original work of theoretical synthesis. Not for nothing did the late Paul de Man consistently refuse the honorific...
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