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Memoirs of a Leavisite: The Decline and Fall of Cambridge English

Memoirs of a Leavisite: The Decline and Fall of Cambridge English

Ellis, David

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ISBN10: 1846318890
ISBN13: 9781846318894
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Mar 28 2013
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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.

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