Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary Critical milieu that transformed the study of literature Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated from society at large.
This was the heyday of literary modernism, a period of change and experimentation--the bravura of which spurred on developments in Critical theory..
These Five Critics rank among the most original and influential of modern times and represent one of the most remarkable intellectual formations in twentieth-century Britain.
Leavis, and Raymond Williams, and explores a vital tradition of literary criticism that today is in danger of being neglected.
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Eliot, I.
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Terry Eagleton reflects on the lives and work of T.
For them, literary criticism was a way of diagnosing social ills and had a vital moral function to perform.
Their work represented a reaction to the impoverishment of language in a commercial, utilitarian society increasingly under the sway of film, advertising, and the popular press.
In the years following, a younger generation of Critics came to the fore.
Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary Critical milieu that transformed the study of literature Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated from society at large
