I.A. Richardsと新批評-覚え書き

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I.A. Richards is sometimes called "the father of the American New Criticism." The New Critics are said to owe much to Richards in evolving their technique of verbal analysis of a literary work of art, although, on the other hand, they have opposed and criticized some part of Richards' theory-especially his theory of value. But they owe him more than that: they seem to have derived from him their unique concept concerning the nature of literature. A close examination of Richards' early writings discloses some incipient ideas of literature, which were to be developed by the New Critics and to be incoporated into their main critical theory. They are those of "complexity," "ambiguity," "irony," and "drama." In this essay the present writer traces them in Ricnards' writings, connecting them to the critical idioms of the New Criticism; thereby trying to find some basic connections between Richards and the New Criticism.
1977-11-30