{"product_id":"i-a-richards-and-the-david-west-9781472575753","title":"I. A. Richards and the Rise of Cognitive Stylistics","description":"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\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWest 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 processes such as memory and learning, attention, categorisation, perception and consciousness. It was this cognitive psychology that Richards drew upon to build a theory of literature and interpretation - which in itself prefigured cognitive stylistics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWest also suggests that Richards is one of the more influential British intellectuals of the 20th century, and that his work is still relevant today. West argues that cognitive stylistics is not, as Peter Stockwell has written, a \"new science of literature and reading\", but rather a discipline with a history that it continues to deny itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book will appeal to researchers and advanced students in stylistics and literary studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David West\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 147257575X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781472575753\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.33d","brand":"David West","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44065818673407,"sku":"9781472575753","price":51.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_28a8070b-929b-4ace-b079-41d5cf915527.jpg?v=1685403679","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/i-a-richards-and-the-david-west-9781472575753","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}