Memoirs of a Leavisite : the decline and fall of Cambridge English / / David Ellis [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Ellis David <1939->
• Pubblicazione: Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 151 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 801.95092
• Soggetto topico: English literature - Study and teaching (Higher) - England - Cambridge - History - 20th century; English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc; English teachers - Great Britain; Critics - Great Britain
• Soggetto geografico: Cambridge (England) Intellectual life 20th century
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).
• Nota di contenuto: Holloway -- First Impressions -- Sanctimonious prick? -- Close reading -- Time out -- QDL -- Class -- Politics -- France -- The Richmond lecture -- Loose end -- Research -- Theory -- Australia -- Shakespeare, Stendhal and James Smith -- Teaching in the UK -- Lawrence -- ... and Eliot -- Epilogue.
• 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 heart of this book are questions about what English should and can be that are by no means finally settled.
• 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.: 9910827691203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II