English as a Vocation: The 'Scrutiny' Movement

by Christopher Hilliard

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 from 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199695172
• ISBN13: 9780199695171
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"