#leavis

[lonleyfl0wer]

Found a pair of mom jeans that suits me. Watch out you art hoes I’m coming for your brand

[publicatiosui]

It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great – the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

-- FR Leavis

[gigiwords]

It is an urgent matter to achieve articulate thought about meaning, value, and art-speech in a civilisation whose philistine common sense has lost any sense of difference between life and electricity.

F. R. Leavis

[tahlia--chloe]

The sense of heightened life that goes with the tragic experience is conditioned by a transcending if the ego…it is as if we were challenged at the profoundest level with the question, ‘In what does the significance of life reside?’

Leavis, Tragedy and the ‘Medium’

[chez-mimich]

...Conoscete voi un brutto edificio, un brutto mobile, un brutto oggetto anteriori al 1820?

Leavis

[previousempathies]

on Leavisim

"Leavisism isolates certain key aspects of mass culture for special discussion. Popular fiction, for example, is condemned for offering addictive forms of ;compensation' and 'distraction':

This form of compensation...is the very reverse of recreation, in that it tends, not to strengthen and refresh the addict for living, but to increase his unfitness by habituating him to weak evasions, to the refusal to face reality at all (Leavis and Thompson, 1977: 100).

Q.D. Leavis (1978) refers to such reading as 'a drug addiction to fiction' (152), and for those readers of romantic fiction it can lead to 'a habit of fantasying [which] will lead to maladjustment in actual life' (54). Self-abuse is one thing, but there is worse: their addiction 'helps to make a social atmosphere unfavorable to the aspirations of the minority.'"

"The growing importance placed on leisure is seen as a sign of this loss [of quality of work and organic community]. Whereas in the past a worker lived in his or her work, he or she now works in order to live outside his or her work."

"What we are presented with is not a historical account, but a lterary myth to draw attention to the nature of our supposed loss: 'the memory of the old order must be the chief incitement towards a new' (Leavis and Thompson, 1977: 97)."

-Storey, Cultural Theory and Popular Culture