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Memoirs of a Leavisite
In the second half of the last century, the teaching of English literature was very much influenced and, in some places, entirely dominated by the ideas of F. R. Leavis. What was it like to be taught by this iconic figure? How and why did one become a Leavisite? In this unique book, part memoir, part study of Leavis, David Ellis takes himself as representative of that pool of lower middle class grammar school pupils from which Leavisites were largely recruited, and explores the beliefs of both the Leavises, their lasting impact on him and why ultimately they were doomed to failure. At the heart of this book are questions about what English should and can be that are by no means finally settled.
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Examining George Eliot
“Examining George Eliot” investigates an important and often overlooked indication of the critical reception of Eliot’s novels, their appearance as set texts for formal examinations in Britain’s colonial and postcolonial worlds. In the context of a consideration of the mid-Victorian examination mania, this article addresses the handling of Eliot’s work in the major venue for international examinations of English literature conducted by Cambridge University.
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METODOLOGÍA DE LA CRÍTICA CINEMATOGRÁFICA: LA REVISTA MOVIE Y LA GRAN TRADICIÓN
[...]never abandoning this tendency towards a \"cinema of directors\", the british journal develops a rigorous method of formal analysis and detailed close readings. Some of its members try to apply to cinema the concepts elaborated by F. R. Leavis and the journal Scrutiny in reference to literary criticism. Esa cercanía con los films y el deseo de investigar el modo en que funcionaban encontró su continuación en Movie: nos parecía que el mejor antídoto contra la imprecisión dominante era apoyarnos en una crítica minuciosa y descriptiva (Cameron, 1972, p. 6). Y esta apertura hacia otras posibilidades de análisis (que excedan la acotada perspectiva sub specie auctoritatis, tan característica de Cahiers) confiere a Movie una mayor ductilidad y un mayor dinamismo para abordar otros aspectos de los films.
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Memoirs of a Leavisite
In the second half of the last century, the teaching of English literature was very much influenced and, in some places, entirely dominated by the ideas of F. R. Leavis.
What was it like to be taught by this iconic figure? How and why did one become a Leavisite? In this unique book, part memoir, part study of Leavis, David Ellis takes himself as representative of that pool of lower middle class grammar school pupils from which Leavisites were largely recruited, and explores the beliefs of both the Leavises, their lasting impact on him and why ultimately they were doomed to failure.
At the heart of this book are questions about what English should and can be that are by no means finally settled.
Part study of Leavis, part memoir of being taught by him and his lasting influence on the author and on a whole generation of English Literature scholars.
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Grasping the cosmic jugular: 'Golden Builders' revisited
Some years ago I heard a British author, whose name I cannot recall, say that the education she had received in English literature was the best in that discipline available in the world. That was, she said, because she studied at Cambridge in the late 1950s under Dr F.R. Leavis. I understood what she meant. However, I believe that those of us at the University of Melbourne who had the opportunity not only to receive the transmuted wisdom of Frank Raymond Leavis through his many authorised agents (not all of whom were called Tomlinson), but also the first-hand teaching of Vincent Thomas Buckley, received the best of both worlds.
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Defending \Identity and the Writer\: A. S. Byatt's Delineation of the Proper \Function of Criticism at the Present Time\
Extending Louise Yelin's study of Possession, the author argues that all of A. S. Byatt's work is marked by a \"return of the Arnoldian repressed\" (40). More specifically, she claims that Byatt uses a refigured Arnoldian humanism to critique postwar literary criticism. Through repeatedly privileging the role of the author and diminishing the power of the critic, Byatt restores what she believes to be the proper \"Function of Criticism at the Present Time\".
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Meeting in Meaning: Philosophy and Theory in the Work of F.R. Leavis
Joyce examines the Leavisian field of association in which F. R. Leavis is situated by looking at the meaning of philosophy and theory in Leavis's work. Among other things, he argues that Leavis's thought was profound and penetrating and very far from exhibiting any kind of pretheoretical innocence. Furthermore, his work resists classification and that to call him a moral formalist or even a liberal humanist is to misunderstood him.
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Was Wittgenstein a Closet Literary Critic?
In 1929, when âodd coupleâ Leavis and Wittgenstein were taking their one-sided walks in Cambridge (the exhausted philosopher needed someone to lean on), Wittgenstein was working on âA Lecture on Ethics,â which explains his notion of how ethics and aesthetics fit in the âworld-book.â Distinguishing between âtrivial or relativeâ and âabsoluteâ judgments, Wittgenstein argues that â[e]thics and aesthetics are one.â At the time, C.K. Ogdenâs theory of âBasic English,â which would soon be spelled out in The System of Basic English (1934), was a lively topic of debate. Five years earlier, with Frank Ramseyâs help, Ogden had translated Wittgensteinâs Tractatus into English, and it was Ogden who arranged presentation of Wittgensteinâs public âLecture on Ethics.â Leavis recalls Wittgensteinâs rapid, apparently disjointed rejoinder to his exposition of Ogdenâs theory of âBasic English,â not recognizing in that articulation a major feature of Wittgensteinâs philosophical and literary style. Brilliantly, Wittgenstein truncates his interlocutorâs argument, presenting it as it should be framed, and preempting, in this case, Ogden and his proxy, Leavis, from giving the flawed account of Ogdenâs mistaken theory (on which Leavis was shaping his work in progress, Mass Communications and Minority Culture [1930]). So does this relationship suggest that Wittgenstein held literature and literary criticism in low esteem? On the contrary, throughout his life, Wittgensteinâs thought was imbued with an âaesthetic sense.â He read widely, and, as his remarks on Nietzsche, Newman, Freud, and Frazer indicate, often critically. So Leavis probably misunderstood Wittgensteinâs famous order, âGive up literary criticism.â Here, Wittgenstein registered skepticism regarding the broad claims of articulation implicit in Leavisâs concept of the âGreat Tradition.â Wittgenstein valued poetry, as he did music; Carnap was right on target when he observed that Wittgenstein did philosophy as a creative writer. If we believe Leavis, when confronted with a particular question about a particular Empson poem, Wittgenstein analyzed it, word for word, as Leavis would have, had Wittgenstein allowed him to speak.
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