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The Living Principle is among the most philosophical of F.R. Leavis's books, a defense of the study of literature as an autonomous discipline involving intellectual rigor of the highest sort. Constant references to the Cambridge University of Leavis's time may make the book seem parochial and dated, but the central premises are still relevant.
F. R. Leavis is typically seen as a powerful agent in the formulation both of an imperial canon and of reading practices that promote Englishness as universally human. In this essay I reassess The Great Tradition (1948) by stressing its non-English constituents and by pondering Leavis's three attempts to accommodate George Eliot's Daniel ...
19 de abr. de 1978 · F.R. Leavis, the controversial and often eccentric British man of letters, died at his Cambridge, England, home last Friday at the age of 82, after being bedridden for nearly a year.
Leavis's view of society: the past and the present 2. Language, literature and continuity 3. The educated public 4. The idea of criticism Part II. Leavis's Criticism of Poetry and the Novel: 5. From poetry criticism to novel criticism 6. The basic concepts of Leavis's novel criticism 7. Judgements and criteria Part III. Leavis on Lawrence: 8.
F.R. Leavis was hugely influential and highly controversial. Those who appreciated his work thought that he had injected a ‘seriousness’ into the study of literature. Even though some considered him to be too dogmatic and too quick to judge literary works, others valued his insights and especially his view that literature should inspire and shape society towards a moral vision.
1 de mar. de 2014 · This essay returns to F. R. Leavis's 1965 essay on Anna Karenina as its point of departure, arguing that the novel is ultimately more tragic in its effect than Leavis allows. Beginning with an account of some representative moments which define the unbridgeable gaps between certain major characters, it moves to consider the differences between ...
Summary. F. R. Leavis was one of the most potent single influences on English studies in the earlier and middle part of the twentieth century. He is best known for his radical revaluation of the accepted canon of English literature, and his impact lies in the revaluative activity itself as much as in the particular set of judgements it involved.
