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... Leavis developed a theory of literature and society which despite his comparative isolation academically was enthusiastically adopted by many teachers of English in schools and higher education from the 1930s onwards . Considered as a ...
... Leavis developed a theory of literature and society which despite his comparative isolation academically was enthusiastically adopted by many teachers of English in schools and higher education from the 1930s onwards . Considered as a ...
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... Leavis finds these values to be most accessible in the fiction which he called ' The Great Tradition ' : Jane Austen , Eliot , James , Conrad and - most relevant to the present age - Lawrence . Although the capacity to write at such a ...
... Leavis finds these values to be most accessible in the fiction which he called ' The Great Tradition ' : Jane Austen , Eliot , James , Conrad and - most relevant to the present age - Lawrence . Although the capacity to write at such a ...
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... Leavis values novels for aesthetic reasons rather than for their relevance to his somewhat incoherent social philosophy . The five main novelists of his ' Great Tradition ' are selected for their commitment to moral discrimination ...
... Leavis values novels for aesthetic reasons rather than for their relevance to his somewhat incoherent social philosophy . The five main novelists of his ' Great Tradition ' are selected for their commitment to moral discrimination ...
Contents
Theoretical Approaches | 21 |
Defoe and Richardson | 59 |
Varieties of Conservative | 87 |
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The Framework of Fiction: Socio-cultural Approaches to the Novel John Bull No preview available - 1988 |
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