Berthoff, Ann E. “I. A. Richards and the Philosophy of Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 4, 1980, pp. 195–210.
“But if the obituaries were disappointingly thin, they only echoed hte curious kind of recognition that IAR had during a lifetime as a scholar working in several fields. Stanley Edgar Hyman, in his review of the accomplishments of modern literary criticism (The Armed Vision, 1948), expressed sadness (and a little contempt) for the direction IAR had begun to take, away from textual criticism and rhetorical theory toward pedagogy” (195). ***The interdisciplinary nature of Berthoff’s work, too.
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