What is it about?
IA Richards's practical criticism experiment was designed to investigate how readers experience poetry; it was the first such psychological experiment.
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Why is it important?
It contradicts the dominant view in literary studies of what "practical criticism" is; it argues for the importance of IA Richards' work, particularly to the current interest of cognitive stylisticians in empirical work.
Perspectives
This continues the work that I have published on IA Richards over the last 20 years.
David West
University of Oldenburg
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This page is a summary of: Practical criticism: An early experiment in reader response, Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics, May 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0963947017704725.
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