10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LEAVISITE»
Discover the use of
Leavisite in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Leavisite and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Memoirs of a
Leavisite: The Decline and Fall of Cambridge ...
David Ellis. MEMOIRS OF A LEAVISITE: The declineandfallofCambridge English
Memoirs of a Leavisite The decline and fallof Cambridge English.
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Memoirs of a
Leavisite: The Decline and Fall of Cambridge ...
Here David Ellis looks back through his own long career as an English professor—to his days as a student of F. R. Leavis—balancing the history of criticism with personal accounts of the Leavis style, exploring its lasting impact on him ...
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The Yale Companion to Chaucer
tional thematics in Chaucer criticism in such a way as to insert his work into the
Leavisite canon. This was a vital operation of renewal, as significant as
Kittredge's defense of Chaucer in the face of Arnold's criticism. Speirs had three
main ...
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International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
Such work drew on two traditions, the Leavisite tradition in Britain and New
Criticism in the USA. Foremost among such initiatives was a collection of papers
edited by Egoff et al. (1969); Rosenheim (1969) and Travers (1969), both from
that ...
This fiftieth anniversary printing of The Two Cultures and its successor piece, A Second Look (in which Snow responded to the controversy four years later) features an introduction by Stefan Collini, charting the history and context of the ...
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Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the ...
With important modifications, Brathwaite and Ngũgĩ both adopt the Leavisite
stance toward capitalism. More important, both accept the basic Leavisite
position on the value of folk culture and a living language. For Leavis, the
situation was one ...
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Issues in English Teaching
Eagleton describes the Leavisite construction of an English literature canon
through their journal Scrutiny: With breathtaking boldness, Scrutiny redrew the
map of English literature in ways from which criticism has never quite recovered.
Jon Davison, John Moss, 2002
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Understanding Children's Literature
The development of criticism of children's fiction: the Leavisite paradigm The
criticism of children's fiction has been something of a poor relation in English and
American critical studies. For the first two-thirds of the twentieth century there was
...
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Mastering Western Texts: Essays on Literature and Society ...
organic community, and the Leavisite vision of literature as the continual quest for
a quintessential Englishness that resides in the organic community. Leavis
looked back at the seventeenth century and nostalgically imagined an integrated
...
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A Short History of Cultural Studies
Later the Leavisite 'resistance' to mass society was recast as class struggle,
where the enemy was still commercial media and popular culture, but the good
guys were intellectuals rather than poets; political radicals rather than literary ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LEAVISITE»
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Leavisite is used in the context of the following news items.
Literary fates (according to Google)
'Hurrah', says the unreconstructed Leavisite in me: until I run a two-horse race between my intellectual beloved and Derrida since 1930. «OUPblog, May 15»
Oxford's Influential Inklings
... both Christian and modernist, and F.W. Bateson, both Christian and Leavisite). Moreover, Lewis himself warned against making too much of ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, May 15»
The fat man walks alone: how Hitchcock the ham became film's …
... well but that Hitchcock's work, using “cinematic” means, achieved Leavisite virtues such as “moral purity” and sensitivity to “the nature of life”. «New Statesman, Apr 15»
Sentenced to Life review – Clive James's poems from death's door
... Pilgrimage Through the London Literary World (1976), carried Leavisite health warnings against the seductions of metropolitan glamour. «The Guardian, Mar 15»
Self-reflective study: the rise of 'mesearch'
I served my academic apprenticeship under the supervision of an emotionally cold but intellectually brilliant Leavisite, so auto-ethnography ... «Times Higher Education, Mar 15»
One Unsparing Eye
By 1964, though, David Holbrook, a left-oriented Leavisite, wondered if the campaign wasn't over: “When I see old Leavis walking along ... «The Weekly Standard, Mar 15»
Raymond Williams was one of the left's great thinkers - he deserves …
The idea of “lived experience” may have been part of the Leavisite vocabulary but whereas I had read the words in Leavis I experienced them ... «New Statesman, Mar 15»
Everywhere I go I see Stephen Fry, but what lies behind his …
The same distinctions apply to what used, in the old Leavisite days of continuous aesthetic judgment, to be called high culture, in which, ... «The Independent, Feb 15»
Karl Miller's grand style: John Sutherland remembers the late, great …
But Miller's whole career was a contradiction to the Leavisite belief that “facile journalism” – especially the journalism generated by the London ... «New Statesman, Oct 14»
Don of cultural studies
What makes Hoggart's work rather interesting is its polemics with the Leavisite tradition, which considers the working class as passive under ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Oct 14»
