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The place of criticism: A wider view

What has emerged from this discussion of the reform of English Literature at A-level is that the tension between the specialist discipline of English and the private act of reading is still ongoing. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this tension took two easily distinguishable forms: the intellectual authority that was used to ...read more The place of criticism: A wider view is a post from: Literary Related posts: * Criticism and the Modernists: Woolf, Murry, Orage * Oxford and Cambridge: The development of criticism * The new professors and professional criticism http://dlvr.it/2p0fRW

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The resistance to knowledge

The reluctance of AQA Specification A to embrace the critical and theo- retical possibilities of the new subject criteria came as no real surprise. Since the new specifications were launched, there have been a number of objections to the critical principles they represent: to the idea that the study of literature should involve anything other ...read more The resistance to knowledge is a post from: Literary Related posts: * The importance of Classics: The literary tradition * The importance of difficulty * The new A-level: The treatment of contexts http://dlvr.it/2nSxt3

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The new A-level: The treatment of contexts

Reactions to the revised specifications were mixed. One English teacher, Pamela Bickley, described QCA’s new version of English Literature as ‘positively encouraging’. Its emphasis on contextuality made it a welcome alternative to ‘the A-Level tendency to study a work of literature as a discrete entity that springs to life fully formed’ and offered ‘far less ...read more The new A-level: The treatment of contexts is a post from: Literary Related posts: * A-level reform: A brief introduction * The importance of Classics: The literary tradition * Revising English: Theory and Practice http://dlvr.it/2n75VR

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A-level reform: A brief introduction

The introduction of Curriculum 2000 was the result of a long period of debate about post-compulsory education in England and Wales. The changes it implemented were intended to broaden the post-16 curriculum and increase the number of students choosing to stay on after GCSE. The main focus of its attention was the A-level, a qualification ...read more A-level reform: A brief introduction is a post from: Literary Related posts: * Revising English: Theory and Practice * Methods and Institutions: Eliot, Richards and Leavis * English in the Universities http://dlvr.it/2lh9vt

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Revising English: Theory and Practice

The difficulty of resolving the ‘Arnoldian paradox’ – of closing the gap between culture and society so that the former could be brought to bear on the problems of the latter – remained an important theme in the literary criticism of the 1960s and 1970s. During these decades, the need for a stable, humane culture ...read more Revising English: Theory and Practice is a post from: Literary Related posts: * English in the Universities * Histories of English: The Critical Background * Methods and Institutions: Eliot, Richards and Leavis http://dlvr.it/2lTGDb

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F. R. Leavis: The university and the sage

Richards’s sense of the narrowness of literary scholarship is apparent in the direction taken by his career. After the publication of Practical Criticism in 1929, he spent relatively little time in Cambridge: in 1934, he was commissioned by the General Education Board in New York to recom- mend a set of improvements in the teaching ...read more F. R. Leavis: The university and the sage is a post from: Literary Related posts: * Methods and Institutions: Eliot, Richards and Leavis * Eliot and his influence * Personal authority and the retreat from scholarship http://dlvr.it/2jt63m

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I. A. Richards: Meaning and value

Eliot’s rejection of the ‘lemon-squeezer school of criticism’ also adds an ironic twist to Tillyard’s claim that Eliot was himself a central figure in the development of such a school, promoting critical rigour and the need for the ‘minute exegesis’ of difficult texts. By 1956, Eliot had become con- vinced that criticism should be directed ...read more I. A. Richards: Meaning and value is a post from: Literary Related posts: * Methods and Institutions: Eliot, Richards and Leavis * Eliot and his influence * Personal authority and the retreat from scholarship http://dlvr.it/2hghX9

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Personal authority and the retreat from scholarship

Such a focus on language gives many of Eliot’s writings a characteristic structure that is at once an echo of Walter Bagehot’s notion of the ‘review-like essay’,33 and a potential blueprint for an academic essay that could demonstrate the capacity for judgement as well as know- ledge that he praised in the work of W. ...read more Personal authority and the retreat from scholarship is a post from: Literary Related posts: * Eliot and scholarship: Method and judgemen * Woolf and Murry: Impressionism and authority * Eliot and his influence http://dlvr.it/2hF47Z

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Eliot and scholarship: Method and judgemen

Eliot had his own doubts about the desirability of an academic form of literary criticism. His misgivings stemmed, in part, from his belief that the qualities needed to be a critic included a kind of taste that developed in a gradual, organic manner, rather than being a skill to be taught. In the Introduction to ...read more Eliot and scholarship: Method and judgemen is a post from: Literary Related posts: * Eliot and his influence * Methods and Institutions: Eliot, Richards and Leavis * Literary criticism: The influence of scholarship http://dlvr.it/2h1LDT

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Eliot and his influence

The relationships between the work of all three critics are complex. Only seven years separated them in age. Eliot and Richards were close friends whose correspondence spanned some forty years; Leavis was deeply influenced by both Eliot’s poetry and his analysis of the develop- ment of the literary tradition; and Leavis and Richards were contempo- ...read more Eliot and his influence is a post from: Literary Related posts: * Methods and Institutions: Eliot, Richards and Leavis * Literary criticism: The influence of scholarship * Critics and Professors http://dlvr.it/2gxk01

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Methods and Institutions: Eliot, Richards and Leavis

My discussion of the work of Woolf, Murry and Orage in the previous chapter indicates that the personal authority of the Victorian men of letters continued to be used well into the twentieth century, to underwrite judgements about literature that were set in opposition to the values of scholarship. All three of these critics drew ...read more Methods and Institutions: Eliot, Richards and Leavis is a post from: Literary Related posts: * Critics and Professors * Oxford and Cambridge: The development of criticism * Criticism and the Modernists: Woolf, Murry, Orage http://dlvr.it/2gk7W8

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Murry and Orage: Editors and sages

If Woolf’s criticism was Paterian in its vision of the relationship between reader and text, then that of Murry, and his fellow editor A. R. Orage, was firmly Arnoldian. Both saw literature as essential to the upholding of a certain set of values, generally characterised in terms of an appeal to ‘truths’ that could rescue ...read more Murry and Orage: Editors and sages is a post from: Literary Related posts: * Criticism and the Modernists: Woolf, Murry, Orage * Woolf and Murry: Impressionism and authority * The importance of difficulty http://dlvr.it/2gPcKh

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The importance of difficulty

On one level, it is easy to see both Murry’s humanism and Woolf’s visions as a means of self-promotion, resting as they do on a personal engagement with the text rather than the detached, analytical methods of the newly professionalised humanities. This, of course, leaves both Woolf and Murry open to many of the charges levelled ...read more The importance of difficulty is a post from: Literary Related posts: * Woolf and Murry: Impressionism and authority * Criticism and the Modernists: Woolf, Murry, Orage * The importance of Classics: The literary tradition http://dlvr.it/2fl1G3

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Woolf and Murry: Impressionism and authority

Woolf’s opposition to scholarship and the canon, and her upholding of a method of reading that was emphatically non-institutional, make her search for an authorial persona and an appropriate critical method- ology seem less the product of gender alone than the result of a complex set of intellectual and institutional factors, in which gender neverthe- [...] Woolf and Murry: Impressionism and authority is a post from: Literary http://dlvr.it/2fH22m

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The common reader: Leisure and idealism

Woolf’s attempt to validate a non-academic approach to literature is best exemplified by her championing of Samuel Johnson’s figure of the ‘Common Reader’. For Woolf, this figure ‘dignifies [the] aims’ of the ‘private people’ who read in rooms ‘too humble to be called libraries’, the mass of ordinary, non-academic readers.45 The common reader differs from [...] The common reader: Leisure and idealism is a post from: Literary http://dlvr.it/2dVpvn

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Virginia Woolf: Criticism as private experience

It is difficult to approach Virginia Woolf without being conscious not only of her Modernism, but also of her relationship to the concept of a feminine sensibility. Because many of Woolf’s subjects are women, and because the method of reading she advocates is linked closely to her attempts to explore the ‘unknown and uncircumscribed spirit’13 [...] Virginia Woolf: Criticism as private experience is a post from: Literary http://dlvr.it/2cv2PV

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Criticism and the Modernists: Woolf, Murry, Orage

The resistance to literary scholarship, in the form of a set of critical philos- ophies that emphasised the relationship between text and reader over the codes and practices of academic study, was to become a recurring theme in the arguments about academic English that took place over the next few decades. Significantly, this debate about [...] Criticism and the Modernists: Woolf, Murry, Orage is a post from: Literary http://dlvr.it/2cDQZW

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