Those of you with an interest in the use of Relevance Theory and
related theories in linguistics for the discussion of literary texts
may be curious to see Terry Eagleton's review of my recent edition of
I. A. Richards' Selected Works 1919-1938:
Terry Eagleton, 'A Good Reason to Murder Your Landlady', London
Review of Books, 24/8 (25 Apr. 2002), pp. 13-15.
A large proportion of the piece is concerned with Richards' views on
the philosophy of language, and some of this may be suggestive to RT
oriented literary researchers, eg:
>"As an anti-foundational pragmatist, Richards believed that all
>understanding involves guesswork and inference, that interpretation
>is potentially infinite, that meaning is plural, unstable and
>contextual, that metaphor in language goes all the way down, and
>that the mind and its operations are fictions."
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