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Leavis

(ˈliːvɪs)
n
(Biography) F(rank) R(aymond). 1895–1978, English literary critic. He edited Scrutiny (1932–53) and his books include The Great Tradition (1948) and The Common Pursuit (1952)
ˈLeavisˌite adj, n
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Leavis. Snow's views were first expressed in a lecture at Cambridge University in 1959, which was later published in his book The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.
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One of the best pieces in the anthology is Simon During's look back at the days "When Literary Criticism Mattered"--that period in the mid-twentieth century when Leavis and the Scrutiny group dominated Britain's literary landscape.
Leavis, especially in The Great Tradition (1948), exercises an important influence.
A PG Phillips B RS Thomas C FR Leavis D TE Howard 11.
E certo que a "nova critica" contribuiu nao apenas para fixar o argumento de Eliot justamente nesse lugar, como tambem para complementa-lo com afirmacoes laconicas cujo valor de verdade parece prescindir de verificacao, dado o seu carater a principio autoevidente: como prologo para um livro que se ocupa da analise das contribuicoes de apenas tres poetas para o mundo moderno, Leavis assinala que "o leitor, sentindo a falta de alguns nomes, poderia reclamar que o criterio de selecao e muito rigoroso.
Leavis and publishes his first essay in Leavis's journal, Scrutiny.
Leavis and Joseph Wiesenfarth have identified various elements that were subsequently reused in botli her new and revised novels.
Leavis in The Great Tradition highly praises Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.
discussed by Moretti, the Franco-British comparisons of Queenie Leavis,