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Literary Intellectuals - East and West (Paperback, New edition)
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Literary Intellectuals - East and West (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, 117
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The modernist movement, in literature as well as in criticism,
provides a very instructive case of iconoclastic canon-change and
subsequent canon-formation, and modern British literary criticism
has been remarkably canon-forming in its basic tendency. This is
particularly true of the line in British criticism that has
revealed strong cultural preoccupations primarily centered on the
works of T. S. Eliot and F. R. Leavis. George Orwell is a figure in
the history of British cultural criticism who links the pre-war and
the post-war generations of modernist writers and critics. Raymond
Williams is the direct continuator of the line in English literary
and cultural criticism formed by Eliot, Lawrence, and Leavis. The
first seven of the essays collected in this book deal with Western
intellectuals - in fact, with this largely British tradition of
cultural criticism. They continue the argument, centered on these
main figures, as it has subsequently developed in the works of
Christopher Caudwell, E. P. Thompson, Perry Anderson, and John
McGrath, among others, and touch upon more contemporary literary
and cultural issues. Some of these issues, such as the spread of
Islamophobia among a number of contemporary British intellectuals,
are also discussed in another chapter in the book, and the division
of what may be called the international intelligentsia into
radicals, pundits, renegades, and imposters, in another chapter.
The last three essays deal with major Arab intellectuals and Arab
literary and cultural concerns. They focus mainly on the
relationships of these key figures with political power, cultural
identity, and exile.
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