| Description |
1 online resource (169 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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."--Publisher's website. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Leavis, F. R. (Frank Raymond), 1895-1978.
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Leavis, F. R. (Frank Raymond), 1895-1978. |
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English literature -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- England -- Cambridge.
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English literature -- Study and teaching (Higher) |
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England -- Cambridge. |
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English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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English literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ellis, David. Memoirs of a Leavisite : the decline and fall of Cambridge English. Liverpool, England : Liverpool University Press, ©2013 xii, 156 pages 9781846318894 |
| ISBN |
9781846318023 (e-book) |
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1846318025 (e-book) |
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1846318890 |
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9781846318894 |
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9781781387115 |
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1781387117 |
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9781846318894 |
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