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Memoirs of a Leavisite - The Decline and Fall of Cambridge English (Hardcover, New)
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Memoirs of a Leavisite - The Decline and Fall of Cambridge English (Hardcover, New)
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In the second half of the last century, the teaching of English
literature was very much influenced and, in some places, entirely
dominated by the ideas of F. R. Leavis. What was it like to be
taught by this iconic figure? How and why did one become a
Leavisite? In this unique book, part memoir, part study of Leavis,
David Ellis takes himself as representative of that pool of lower
middle class grammar school pupils from which Leavisites were
largely recruited, and explores the beliefs of both the Leavises,
their lasting impact on him and why ultimately they were doomed to
failure. At the heart of this book are questions about what English
should and can be that are by no means finally settled.
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