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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (2): 212–217.
Published: 01 June 1964
...Mark Spilka Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 1 Julian Moynahan. The Deed of Life: The Novels and Tales of D. H. Lawrence . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963. xxi + 229 pp. $5.00. POST-LEAVIS LAWRENCE CRITICS...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... in the work of the social anthropologist Ernest Gellner. The “two cultures” debate of the early 1960s, centrally animated by C. P. Snow and F. R. Leavis, made the anxiety of the literary professoriat a matter of public debate that still inflects literary scholarship and theory. The rhetorical amplification...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1999) 60 (2): 251–264.
Published: 01 June 1999
.... Adorno There was a brief time when there were two cultures, us and them, the literary and the scientific, defended by the self-appointed knights in armor, Sir Frank (Leavis, much too prickly for a real knight- hood) and Sir Charles (Snow, who got one), rattling their weapons across...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (4): 423–438.
Published: 01 December 1968
... regarded as a major forma- tive influence on it. He founded no school of criticism comparable to that of F. R. Leavis or the Chicago Aristotelians; he enunciated no coherent body of doctrine; he edited no periodical as influential or as long-lived as the Criterion, Scrutiny, or Modern Philology...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (1): 66–69.
Published: 01 March 1989
... and Leavis’s determination to save modernism from its Romantic heritage to Raymond Williams as the unlikely rescuer of a more engaged, historically aware Coleridge. Goodson wants to blame Richards for contributing to a crippling narrowness in English stud- ies. Concerned above all else to preserve...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 March 1995
... that documenting the experience of others has been at once “a highly successful and limiting 2 Q. D. Leavis, introduction to JuneEyre, by Charlotte BrontE (New York: Pen- guin, 1966), 2. 5 A quick look at any library shelf is most illuminating in this respect. Books with intriguing titles...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 581–589.
Published: 01 December 2016
... century book reviews relied far more on quotation, though typically without much analysis, than more intellectually ambitious works did. In the anglophone world this analytic commitment to the socially revealing force of language in the novel first comes to the fore in F. R. Leavis. Leavis’s Great...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 395–412.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... Central figures in the early twentieth-century history of literary studies—critics such as I. A. Richards and F. R. Leavis—contributed to a discussion seemingly ubiquitous in Europe and the Atlantic world when they described advertising, cinema, and radio as corrupting influences on modern culture...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (4): 473–478.
Published: 01 December 1964
...Charles Muscatine Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 CHAUCER IN AN AGE OF CRITICISM By CHARLESMUSCATINE “There is no good book on Chaucer’s poetry,” wrote Mrs. Q. D. Leavis in Scrutiny in 1943, because no first...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 297–316.
Published: 01 June 2014
... Christine . 1999 . “ Clerical .” In A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture , edited by Tucker Herbert F. , 141 – 54 . Oxford : Blackwell . Kuhn Thomas S. 1996 ( 1962 ). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Leavis F. R...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 495–504.
Published: 01 December 2019
.... On the contrary, their goal was to develop a theory of French literature and French national culture that could be elaborated only in opposition to another national entity, the same tactic F. R. Leavis adopted when he tried to secure the superiority of English literature, in The Great Tradition , by comparing...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (4): 504–508.
Published: 01 December 1968
...), but engages in some strange evasions whenever he comes up against the plain fact that Forster is a romance writer only some of the time and with part of his energies. For example, after disposing of critics who, according to Thomson, take their stand in moral realism (notably F. R. Leavis...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 259–277.
Published: 01 June 2014
... : Smith and Elder . Lane Christopher . 2011 . The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Leavis F. R. 1963 . Scrutiny: A Retrospect . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Legge Heneage . 1895...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (1): 18–32.
Published: 01 March 1966
... But how does “artistic illusion” operate? F. R. Leavis’ remarks on Shakespeare’s verse may help us here. In Antony and Cleopatra, the “verse seems to enact its meaning, to do and to give rather than to talk about.. . .”I9 One of Leavis’ examples is the passage in which Cleopatra is fanned...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (3): 374–375.
Published: 01 September 1964
... as a cursory glance at Leavis’ book will reveal.) The fact is that I agree with the earlier Mr. Spilka that the two halves cannot be separated, though my view of the integrity of the two differs sharply from his view. I argue against his view among others in my book and in two recent essays...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (2): 215–237.
Published: 01 June 2014
... by Spencer Terence Sutherland James . Oxford : Clarendon . Leavis Q. D. 1968 ( 1943 ). “ The Discipline of Letters .” In A Selection from “Scrutiny,” edited by Leavis F. R. , vol. 1 , 7 – 22 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Lubenow W. C. 1998...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 123–124.
Published: 01 March 1949
.... Leavis, Robert Lynd, John Middleton Murry-all of whom have written books or articles on the subject of this volume. The author pays tribute to A. Chakravarty, and alleges that “of recent books, Mr. Blunden’s is the most useful to the scholar.” Four years ago Professor Chew, in an able review...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (2): 236–244.
Published: 01 June 1970
... been injured both by unsympathetic criticism and by uncritical sympathy. In 1932, when F. R. Leavis presented an able and much-needed defense of Hopkins’ technique in New Bearings in Eng- lish Poetry, the essential rightness of most of his so-called oddities was scarcely understood; yet...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (4): 551–553.
Published: 01 December 2017
.... The informational value of the book inside this cover is fairly substantial. There are detailed considerations of Nancy Cunard’s Negro anthology, the relation of Kamau Brathwaite and Ngūgī wa Thiong’o to F. R. Leavis, the Windrush generation of West Indian writers, the literary phenomenon of Amos Tutuola...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (4): 413–414.
Published: 01 December 1963
...,” for example, is seen as a work of “the greatest good humor” (p. 124), despite the fact that Q. D. Leavis, R. H. Pearce, Simon Lesser, Hyatt H. Waggoner, and Daniel Hoffman have all persuasively shown how disturbing and complex a story it is. The author, a professor emeritus at the University...