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We can see , then , that just as his aesthetic was built around an ideal of totality ,
Leavis ' s sociology also posits an ideal totality , in this case the organic
community , situated in a mythical past , by which to judge and condemn
subsequent ...
We can see , then , that just as his aesthetic was built around an ideal of totality ,
Leavis ' s sociology also posits an ideal totality , in this case the organic
community , situated in a mythical past , by which to judge and condemn
subsequent ...
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The absence of such a conception explains why , for Leavis , the central
mediating agency between the writer and society is ' literary tradition ' . This
concept of tradition , which Leavis takes over from Eliot , entails the notion of a
continuous ...
The absence of such a conception explains why , for Leavis , the central
mediating agency between the writer and society is ' literary tradition ' . This
concept of tradition , which Leavis takes over from Eliot , entails the notion of a
continuous ...
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F . Mulhern , ' The Marxist Aesthetics of Christopher Caudwell ' , in New Left
Review , no . 85 , May / June 1974 . For a more detailed account of Leavis cf . A .
Milner , ' Leavis and English Literary Criticism ' , in Praxis , Berkeley , California ,
vol .
F . Mulhern , ' The Marxist Aesthetics of Christopher Caudwell ' , in New Left
Review , no . 85 , May / June 1974 . For a more detailed account of Leavis cf . A .
Milner , ' Leavis and English Literary Criticism ' , in Praxis , Berkeley , California ,
vol .
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Contents
Goldmanns Genetic Structuralism | 8 |
A Note on the Problem of Aesthetics | 18 |
Lukács and Socialist Realism | 24 |
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