Memoirs of a leavisite : the decline and fall of Cambridge English / / David Ellis

• Autore: Ellis David
• Pubblicazione: Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Disciplina: 801.95
• Soggetto topico: English literature - Theory, etc; English literature - Study and teaching (Higher); Critics; English teachers; Intellectual life
• Soggetto geografico: Cambridge (England)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Holloway; 2 First Impressions; 3 sanctimonious prick?; 4 Close reading; 5 time out; 6 QDL; 7 Class; 8 politics; 9 France; 10 The Richmond lecture; 11 Loose end; 12 Research; 13 Theory; 14 Australia; 15 shakespeare, stendhal and James smith; 16 teaching in the UK; 17 Lawrence; 18 ... and Eliot; 19 Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 hear
• Titolo autorizzato: Memoirs of a leavisite
• ISBN: 1-78138-932-2; 1-84631-802-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453710403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II