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EBOOK English as a Vocation:The 'Scrutiny' Movement
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191636509
EAN: 954C8FE5EB
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Stron: 320
Data wydania: 2012
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English as a Vocation is a history of the most influential movement in modern        British literary criticism. F. R. Leavis and his collaborators on the Cambridge        journal Scrutiny in the 1930s to the 1950s demonstrated compelling ways of reading        modernist poetry, Shakespeare, and the 'texts' of advertising. Crucially, they        offered a way of teaching critical reading, an approach that could be adapted for        schools and adult education classes, modelled in radiotalks and paperback guides to        English Literature, and taken up in universities as far afield as Colombo and        Sydney. This book shows how a small critical school turned into a movement with an        international reach. It tracks down Leavis's students, analysing the pattern of        their social origins and subsequent careers in the contextof twentieth-century        social change. It shows how teachers transformed Scrutiny approaches as they tried        to put them into practice in grammar and secondary modern schools. And it explores        the complex, even contradictory politics of the movement. Champions of creative        writing and enemies of 'progressive' education alike based their arguments on        Scrutiny's interpretation of modern culture. 'Left-Leavisites' such as Raymond        Williams, Richard Hoggart, and Stuart Hall wroughtinfluential interpretations of        social class and popular culture out of arguments with the Scrutiny tradition. This        is the first book to examine major figures such as these alongside the hundreds of        other teachers and writers in the movement whose names are obscure but who wrestled        with the same challenges: how do youapproach a baffling poem? How do you uncover        what an advertisement is trying to do? How can literature inform our everyday        experiences and judgements? What does 'culture' mean in modern times?

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