The Concepts of Criticism

ISBN-13: 9789401022569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 551 str.

L. Aschenbrenner

Opis

Tbis inquiry may be thought of as a sequel to The Concepts of Value and as an extension of the brief core-vocabulary of aesthetic concepts found in one of the appendices to it. In terms of sheer numbers, most of the value concepts of our language are to be found in the area of human relations and of the aesthetic. There are also other value vocabularies, shorter but equally important, for example, the cognitive and logical. These and other objects of pbilosopbical study (for example, the question of "other minds") deserve the kind of empirical survey that has been made of moral and aesthetic notions, if only to test a priori approaches to them. In the present studyan even more determined empirical approach than that adopted for the first has been found necessary. Once the moral or human value vocabulary has been identified, sentential contexts for the use of the terms readily come to mind. In a study of the language of criticism, however, the vocabulary has first to be sought in the utterances of critics themselves and quoted in sufficient context to make their critical intentions clear. The outcome is that the present study is of great length, about half of it being quotations from critics. The rule adopted for arriving at tbis length go on collecting quotations as long as new types of appraisal came was to to light.

Spis treści

1. Criticism and the Concepts of Appraisal.- 2. Critical Non-Appraisive Discourse.- 3. Sources of the Appraisive Vocabulary.- 4. Characterization and Commendation.- 5. Linguistic and Appraisive Communities.- 6. The Nature of Characterization.- 7. Characterization and Characterisms.- 8. Critics and Criticism.- Preliminary: Critical Exclusions.- 0.0 Paracritical and Noncritical Discourse.- 0.1 Fact and Interpretation of Fact.- 0.11 The Artist: Personal Quality.- 0.12 The Artist: Biography.- 0.13 History of the Arts.- 0.14 Practice of the Arts.- 0.2 Theory.- 0.21 Criterial Promulgations.- 0.22 The Critique of Criticism.- 0.23 Psychological Theory and Applications.- I/The Characterization of the Artist.- — Part I.- 1.0 Creative Powers.- 1.1 Imagination.- 1.2 Sensibility.- 1.3 Feeling.- 1.31 Sentiment.- 1.32 Sensuousness and Sensuality.- 1.33 Emotion and Passion.- 1.4 Intelligence and Intellect.- 1.5 Humor.- 1.6 Spirit.- 2.0 Creative Response.- 2.1 Invention.- 2.2 Craft and Mastery.- 2.3 Social Response.- 2.4 Appraisive or Creative Outlook.- Conclusion — Part I.- II/The Characterization of Art.- — Part II.- 3.0 Order.- 3.1 Clarity.- 3.2 Coherence.- 3.3 Development.- 3.4 Balance and Proportion.- 3.5 Economy.- 3.6 Forms, Methods, and Rules.- 4.0 Elemental Quality.- 4.1 General.- 4.2 Visual.- 4.21 Color.- 4.22 Line, Space and Surface.- 4.3 Tonal.- 4.4 Verbal.- 5.0 Presentation.- 5.1 Realization.- 5.2 Self-Expression.- 5.3 Individuation and Immediation.- 5.4 Imagery.- 5.5 Expression and Intermedial Relations.- 5.6 Performance.- 6.0 Essential Characterization.- 6.1 Thematic Definition: Intention.- 6.2 Appraisal of Sentiment.- 6.21 Emotion: Tenor of Emotions.- 6.22 Sentiment Rendered.- 6.23 Sentiment Characterized; la Condition Humaine.- 6.24 Explicit Evocatives.- 6.3 Moral and Social Characterization.- 6.31 Opus Characterization.- 6.32 Constituent Characterization.- Extern.- Intern.- In Loco Auctoris.- 6.4 Paresthetic Values.- 6.41 Functionality.- 6.42 Humor.- 6.43 Erotic Quality.- 6.44 Transcendental and Religious Values.- 7.0 Style and Totality.- 7.1 Magnitude.- 7.2 Power and Accommodation.- 7.3 Vitality.- 7.4 Informal Types.- 8.0 Contextual Characterization and Generalization.- 8.1 Development and Maturity of the Artist.- 8.2 Relation of Artworks to Schools.- 8.3 Zeitgeist: Relation of Artist or Artwork to Epoch or Social Context.- 8.4 Characterization of Schools and Epochs.- 8.5 Similation.- III/Commendation.- — Part III.- 9.0 General and Ultimate Appraisal.- 9.1 Aesthetic Import; Eminent Sense.- 9.2 Commendation of Work.- 9.3 Commendation of Artist.- Critical Source Book.- Preliminary/Critical Exclusions.- I/The Characterization of the Artist.- II/The Characterization of Art.- III/Commendation.