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.
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.- I/The Characterization of the Artist.- — Part I.- 1.0 Creative Powers.- 2.0 Creative Response.- Conclusion — Part I.- II/The Characterization of Art.- — Part II.- 3.0 Order.- 4.0 Elemental Quality.- 5.0 Presentation.- 6.0 Essential Characterization.- 7.0 Style and Totality.- 8.0 Contextual Characterization and Generalization.- III/Commendation.- — Part III.- 9.0 General and Ultimate Appraisal.- Critical Source Book.- Preliminary/Critical Exclusions.- I/The Characterization of the Artist.- II/The Characterization of Art.- III/Commendation.
