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Frank Raymond " F. R. " Leavis CH (14 July 1895 – 14 April 1978) was an English literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught for much of his career at Downing College, Cambridge, and later at the University of York . Leavis ranked among the most prominent English-language critics in the 1950s and 1960s. [1] . J. B.
10 de abr. de 2024 · F.R. Leavis (born July 14, 1895, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.—died April 14, 1978, Cambridge) was an English literary critic who championed seriousness and moral depth in literature and criticized what he considered the amateur belletrism of his time.
26 de jul. de 2017 · F. R. (Frank Raymond) Leavis (b. 14 July 1895–d. 14 April 1978) is often described as one of the most influential figures in the history of 20th-century literary criticism, particularly in British contexts.
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.
27 de fev. de 2020 · F. R. Leavis (1895–1978) was an English literary critic and university teacher and a major figure on the English-speaking cultural landscape during the middle decades of the twentieth century. He was particularly associated with the rise of Cambridge ‘English’.
10 de nov. de 2015 · This chapter gives an overview of Leavis’s life and work, his intellectual heritage and legacy. The first part of the life takes us up to the completion of Leavis’s doctoral studies, with an intervening period of nearly four years’ service in the...
18 de mar. de 2016 · F. R. Leavis became the major single target for the new critical theory of the 1970s. Both Raymond Williams in Politics and Letters (1979) and Terry Eagleton in Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983) bear witness to his enormous, ubiquitous influence in English Studies from the 1930s onwards.
