I. A. Richards Among the Scientists

• Published in: ELH Vol. 86; no. 3; pp. 751 - 777
• Main Author: Green, Elspeth
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
• Subjects: Aesthetics; Ambiguity; American literature; British & Irish literature; Collaboration; Criticism; Departments; Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns) (1888-1965); English literature; Essays; Grammatical aspect; Ideology; Interdisciplinary aspects; Irish literature; Joyce, James (1882-1941); Keats, John (1795-1821); Library collections; Literary criticism; Literary devices; Literary translation; Metaphor; Philosophy; Poetry; Psychology; Publishing; Publishing industry; Readers; Rhetoric; Russell, Bertrand Arthur William (1872-1970); Science; Writers; New York; United States > US

This essay argues that I. A. Richards's early critical practices were the product of his involvement with the popular science publishing empire of his friend and sometime-collaborator, C. K. Ogden. Recent reevaluations of Richards's legacy have sought to rescue "close reading" fr...