Richards on Imagination: Reanimating a Psychological Poetics

<a href="https://embed.stanford.edu/iframe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpurl.stanford.edu%2Fdf529kq6110" class="su-underline">Show Content</a>

Abstract/Contents

Abstract: I.A. Richards was one of the most formative, if inconsistently understood, literary critics of the 20th century. This thesis seeks to clarify a key move in Richards' work: his ability to reapply and thus arguably "reanimate" the thought of major historical intellectual figures. In his (1934) book Coleridge on Imagination, Richards applies the 19th-century idealist philosophy of the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to the analysis of 20th-century poetry and in the same move brings Coleridge into dialogue with 20th-century psychology. Arguing that "reanimation" was one of Richards' modus operandi, the thesis abstracts the method from his book on Coleridge and turns it on him to capture the reinvigorating potential of his criticism.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 2016

Author	Waterman, Andie
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of English
Primary advisor	Greene, Roland
Advisor	Gigante, Denise

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/df529kq6110

Use and reproduction: User agrees that, where applicable, content will not be used to identify or to otherwise infringe the privacy or confidentiality rights of individuals. Content distributed via the Stanford Digital Repository may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor.
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC-SA).

Preferred Citation: Waterman, Andie. (2016). Richards on Imagination: Reanimating a Psychological Poetics. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/df529kq6110

Stanford University, Department of English, Undergraduate Honors Theses

Loading usage metrics...