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Author Hilliard, Christopher.

Title English as a vocation : the Scrutiny movement / by Christopher Hilliard
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Contents How to Teach Reading -- Culture and Environment -- Origins and Destinations -- Will Teachers Bear Scrutiny? -- Adult Education and 'Left-Leavisism' -- Discrimination and the Popular Arts -- Minority Culture and the Penguin Public -- Scrutiny's Empire
Summary 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?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Leavis, F. R. (Frank Raymond), 1895-1978.
SUBJECT Leavis, F. R. (Frank Raymond), 1895-1978. fast (OCoLC)fst00050169
Scrutiny (Cambridge, England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83128253
Scrutiny (Cambridge, England) fast (OCoLC)fst01363442
Subject Criticism -- England -- Cambridge -- History -- 20th century
Criticism -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- England -- Cambridge -- History -- 20th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
Criticism.
Criticism -- Study and teaching (Higher)
England -- Cambridge.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191636509
0191636509
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9781280880049
9780199949946
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