I. A. Richards and the Rise of Cognitive Stylistics

by David West

I. A. Richards is an influential figure in literary criticism but has rarely been thought of as someone who laid the foundations for cognitive stylistics. This book proposes that Richards was a "protocognitivist".

West argues that Richards anticipated many of the discipline's core aims, methods and assumptions. The book argues that the roots of cognitive psychology lie in early 20th-century psychology, when there was a focus on cognitive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147257575X
• ISBN13: 9781472575753
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"