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Leavis, F. R. (Frank Raymond Leavis) (lē`vĭs), 1895–1978, English critic and teacher. Leavis was one of the most influential literary critics of the 20th cent. A formidable controversialist, he combined close textual analysis with a commitment to moral seriousness and provided a carefully constructed canon of worthwhile recent English literature. His works include New Bearings in English Poetry (1932), The Great Tradition (1948), The Common Pursuit (1952), D. H. Lawrence, Novelist (1955), and Anna Karenina and Other Essays (1968). He was editor and cofounder of the influential quarterly Scrutiny from 1932 until its demise in 1953. From 1936 to 1962, Leavis was a fellow at Downing College, Cambridge. He excoriated "mass culture" in his writings on education and society: Mass Civilization and Minority Culture (1930), Education and the University (1943), and English Literature in Our Time and the University (1969). Nor Shall My Sword: Discourses on Pluralism, Compassion and Social Hope (1972) was a collection of lectures. He was married to Q. D. Leavis Leavis, Q. D. (Queenie Dorothy Leavis), 1906–81, British literary critic; wife of F. R. Leavis . After studying at Cambridge, she wrote Fiction and the Reading Public (1932), which analyzed the market for different types of fiction among readers). ..... Click the link for more information. . BibliographySee studies by F. Mulhern (1978), and F. P. Bilan (1979). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I was only 21, after all, and so ignorant of sex that its vast vocabulary, of which I had some command, had no proper - ie, "lived", as we Leavisites, worshippers of DH Lawrence and the dark Gods of the Unconsciousness, used to say - no proper "lived" content. He came out as a Leavisite, or rather a Leavisian since Leavisites, he would tell us, are a cult that clings too tightly to the word of the Father. The best thing about the approach followed by the Australian Leavisites was that they continually sought out writers who spoke to the modern reader and who appealed to the imagination. |
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