F R Leavis

Author : Richard Storer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134220250

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F.R. Leavis by Richard Storer Pdf

‘informative, succint, circumspect; an exacting introduction to Leavis as an incisive master critic. Ideal for today’s students and general readers’ – Chris Terry, Times Higher Education F.R. Leavis is a landmark figure in twentieth-century literary criticism and theory. His outspoken and confrontational work has often divided opinion and continues to generate interest as students and critics revisit his highly influential texts. Looking closely at a representative selection of Leavis’s work, Richard Storer outlines his thinking on key topics such as: literary theory, ‘criticism’ and culture canon formation modernism close reading higher education. Exploring the responses and engaging with the controversies generated by Leavis’s work, this clear, authoritative guide highlights how Leavis remains of critical significance to twenty-first-century study of literature and culture.

Author : R. P. Bilan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1979-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521223249

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The Literary Criticism of F. R. Leavis by R. P. Bilan Pdf

A comprehensive analysis and assessment of the many strands of Leavis's work, emphasising the basic unity of his ideas.

Author : Richard Storer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134220267

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F.R. Leavis by Richard Storer Pdf

‘informative, succint, circumspect; an exacting introduction to Leavis as an incisive master critic. Ideal for today’s students and general readers’ – Chris Terry, Times Higher Education F.R. Leavis is a landmark figure in twentieth-century literary criticism and theory. His outspoken and confrontational work has often divided opinion and continues to generate interest as students and critics revisit his highly influential texts. Looking closely at a representative selection of Leavis’s work, Richard Storer outlines his thinking on key topics such as: literary theory, ‘criticism’ and culture canon formation modernism close reading higher education. Exploring the responses and engaging with the controversies generated by Leavis’s work, this clear, authoritative guide highlights how Leavis remains of critical significance to twenty-first-century study of literature and culture.

Author : F. R. Leavis
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780571280803

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The Great Tradition by F. R. Leavis Pdf

'The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.' So begins F. R. Leavis's most controversial book, The Great Tradition, an uncompromising critical-polemical survey of English fiction, first published in 1948. Leavis makes his case for moral seriousness as the necessary criterion for an author's inclusion in any list of the finest novelists. In the course of his argument he adds D. H. Lawrence to the pantheon, and singles out Hard Times as Dickens' one 'completely serious work of art'; while Lawrence Sterne, Henry Fielding, and James Joyce are among those weighed in the balance and found wanting. '[Leavis] gave one a new idea of what it meant to read... the whole business of criticism acquired a new and exhilarating quality.' Frank Kermode, London Review of Books

Author : Steven Cranfield
Publisher : Springer
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319259857

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F. R. Leavis by Steven Cranfield Pdf

This is a critical introduction to the educational thought of F. R. Leavis (1895–1978), the greatest English literary critic of the twentieth century, providing the first in-depth examination of Leavis’s ideas in relation to contemporary mass higher education. During the course of a long, prolific and controversial academic career, which saw him take issue with figures such as Wittgenstein, T. S. Eliot and C. P. Snow, Leavis became one of the most articulate advocates for the idea of the university as ‘a centre of consciousness and human responsibility’ in the face of what he saw as the relentless technological drive of civilisation. With the journal Scrutiny which he co-founded, as well as his critical writings, Leavis became a decisive influence on generations of teachers in Britain and overseas. Widely misrepresented as narrowly elitist, his ideas about ‘the creative university’, with their radical, student-centred approach to teaching, constitute a powerful resource for a higher education system grappling with the contradictory demands of continuity and change. Based on original research, the study provides an overview of Leavis’s life, work and heritage and his educational world view, and a comprehensive exploration of Leavis’s pedagogy from theoretical and practical perspectives. It also includes a first-hand account by the author of being taught by Leavis in person.

Author : Michael Bell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134951956

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F.R. Leavis by Michael Bell Pdf

First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Dandan Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000190939

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Literary Criticism, Culture and the Subject of 'English': F.R. Leavis and T.S. Eliot by Dandan Zhang Pdf

This volume considers the highly convoluted relationship between F. R. Leavis and T. S. Eliot, comparing their ideas in literary and cultural criticism, and connecting it to the broader discourse of English Studies as a university subject that developed in the first half of the twentieth century. Comparing and contrasting all the many writings of Leavis on Eliot, and the two on Lawrence, the study examines how Eliot is formative for the theory and practice of Leavis’s literary criticism in both positive and negative ways, and investigates Lawrence’s significance in relation to Leavis’s changing attitude to Eliot. It also examines how profound differences in social, cultural, religious and national thinking strengthened Leavis’s alliance with Lawrence to the detriment of his relationship with Eliot. These differences between the two writers are presented as dichotomies between nationalism and Europeanism/internationalism, ruralism/organicism and industrialism/metropolitanism, and relate to the two men’s views on literary education, the subject of ‘English’ and the position of the Classics in the curriculum. It explores how Leavis’s increasingly conflicted feelings about a figure to whom he owned an enormous critical debt and inspiration, but whose various beliefs and literary affiliations caused him much misgiving, result in a deep sense of division in Leavis himself which he sought to transfer onto Eliot as what he called a pathological ‘case’.

Author : C. P. Snow,Charles Percy Snow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107606142

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The Two Cultures by C. P. Snow,Charles Percy Snow Pdf

The importance of science and technology and future of education and research are just some of the subjects discussed here.

Author : G. Day
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230377042

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Re-Reading Leavis by G. Day Pdf

This book offers a much needed reassessment of F.R. Leavis. Gary Day argues that post-structuralist theory has defined itself in opposition to Leavis when in fact there are certain parallels between the two types of criticism. Day also draws attention to the connections between Leavis's early work and the emergent discourses of consumerism and scientific management. In particular he notes how at the centre of each is an image of the body and he analyses what this means for Leavis's conception of reading. By situating Leavis in relation to the concerns of post-structuralism and by locating him firmly in his historical context, Day is able to chart how far criticism can justly claim to be oppositional. At the same time, Day is able to recuperate from Leavis's work a notion of value; a topic which is becoming increasingly important in literary and cultural studies today.

Author : John Ferns
Publisher : New York : Twayne Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015047856920

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F.R. Leavis by John Ferns Pdf

This book presents a biography of literary critic F.R. Leavis and critical interpretation and discussion of his writings.

Author : Donald Francis McKenzie,M. P. Allum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015000638216

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F.R. Leavis by Donald Francis McKenzie,M. P. Allum Pdf

Author : William Walsh
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035913636

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F.R. Leavis by William Walsh Pdf

Author : F R (Frank Raymond) 1895-1 Leavis
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014031575

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Revaluation by F R (Frank Raymond) 1895-1 Leavis Pdf

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Author : F. R. Leavis
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780571306732

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New Bearings in English Poetry by F. R. Leavis Pdf

It is difficult now to imagine the shock that this book caused when it was first published in 1932. The author was a teacher at a Cambridge college, an intensely serious man who had been seriously wounded by poison gas on the Western Front, and he was not disposed to suffer foolishness gladly. His opening sentences were arresting: 'Poetry matters little to the modern world. That is, very little of contemporary intelligence concerns itself with poetry'. What followed was nothing less than the welcoming of a revolution in English verse, set against the moral and social crisis that followed the trauma of the First World War. It was this situation, this feeling of breakdown and disorder, that gave such force to Leavis's dismissal of most late Romantic poetry and his welcoming of the modernists T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, and of the writer who Leavis regarded as their forebear, Gerard Manley Hopkins. The tone of high moral urgency, and the message that the experience of literature could become an engagement with life that was almost a secular equivalent to religion, seemed new and abrasively refreshing. Leavis despised the reigning dilettantism in both poetry and criticism, and in this book he threw down the gauntlet to the establishment as he understood it. In the same year he founded the journal Scrutiny, and began his long career as the most formidably serious literary critic of his time.

Author : Anne Samson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015029161612

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F.R. Leavis by Anne Samson Pdf

An introduction and overview of the work of 20th-century Cambridge literary and social critic Leavis, for students of philosophy. Looks at the close link between his literary and social criticism, his notion that the purpose of literature is to provide the moral basis for a truly human society, and the major influence he has had on the teaching of literature. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR