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Indlæser... Practical Criticism (original 1929; udgave 1929)af I.A. Richards
Work InformationPractical Criticism: A Study Of Literary Judgment af I. A. Richards (1929)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. To me, this is a terrible waste of an interesting experiment. Richards gave unidentified literary passages to ordinary people for evaluable, but instead of respecting their responses, he used them as material for snobbish condemnation of their literary judgment. Personally, I believe the only objective criterion of literature is its effect on readers, and I think these readers' opinions deserved more serious consideration. Maybe "Festus" is better than Richards thi=ought. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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That said, the approach to poetry Richards advocates is the only sane one, and the fact that the book reads like a set of commonplace invectives is in itself Richards' own achievement, and he seems to be a chap who'd be the first to acknowledge that (he did live quite a long life after publishing this book and most probably did say a thing or two about it, but I am ignorant of his later activity, which, of course, immediately disqualifies my "review" anyway).
On the other hand, I would not assume for a moment that if such an experiment were to take place in today's academia, the ensuing "protocols" would show any difference in critical faculties of the students.
Given a hammer, one guy starts using nails to build things, another, as has been wisely observed, takes every protrusion for a nail and causes some damage, another drives a nail through his own foot, a bunch of people fight hammering each other to death, and a number of observers condemn the hammer as an instrument of doom.
I.A.Richards introduced some vast improvements in the construction of the hammer and produced a thorough manual with a lot of practical examples and caveats. The manual is tedious but well worth reading. Also, it is full of fine rhetoric and malicious wit seldom possessed by our contemporaries (alas!), who are wont to nail stuff with their iPads. Also, several of the poems used to baffle the pre-literary-theory nincompoops I will happily live with ever after. ( )