Article: Riffing the canon.(musical canons )

Article: Q.D. Leavis's criticism: The human core. ...
Modern Age;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Leavis (1895-1978), Q.D. Leavis is an important critic. Second ... Heights" (1969). When Q.D. Leavis died in March 1981, David ... with her husband, F.R. Leavis, as forming "one of the most ... and John Stuart Mill, and George Eliot and George Henry Lewes. In ...

Article: The Oracular F. R. Leavis.
American Scholar;  March 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... The lectures by Snow and Leavis, published in 1959 and ... The reputation of F. R. Leavis, who died in 1978, rests ... His Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad ... s first impression of Leavis's wo

Article: The mystery of Doctor Leavis
The Independent - London;  July 15, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... about the English critic and teacher, FR Leavis, now the subject of a massive and scholarly ... something to say, remarked "I suppose Dr Leavis is greatly missed". There was a long ... explain the unique brand of antagonism Leavis seems to have aroused. Part of the reason ...

Article: F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism.
World Literature Today;  March 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... means us to conclude truistically that Leavis spent much of his life writing literary ... At the very least, it suggests that Leavis's whole life was steeped in a critical ... meaningful aspects of his existence. Leavis lived, so it would appear, the "examined ...

Encyclopedia entry: Leavis, F(rank) R(aymond)
Who's Who in the Twentieth Century;      512 words ...Leavis, F(rank) R(aymond) (1895– ... university teacher. He was made a CH in 1978. Leavis was educated at Cambridge, first at the ... Fiction and the Reading Public (1932). Leavis's own first major book, New Bearings ...

Encyclopedia entry: Leavis, F. R.
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature;      700+ words ...Leavis, F. R. Frank Raymond Leavis (1895–1978), critic, was Cambridge born, bred ... encouraged close attention to the text. In 1929 he married Q. D. Leavis (1906–81), whose study of the relationship between ...

Article: Letter: Unfair cultural caricatures of Leavis the ...
The Independent - London;  March 26, 1994 ;     525 words ... ... may not like the criticisms F. R. Leavis made of C. P. Snow, but he ought at ... accurate account of them. His caricature of Leavis, as a bilious chair-craving academic ... echoing Snow's jibe at "Luddites" - that Leavis regarded it as the responsibility of a ...