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Frank Raymond Leavis (Cambridge, 14 luglio 1895 – 14 aprile 1978) è stato un critico letterario e insegnante britannico.
Frank Raymond " F. R. " Leavis CH (14 July 1895 – 14 April 1978) was an English literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught for much of his career at Downing College, Cambridge, and later at the University of York. Leavis ranked among the most prominent English-language critics in the 1950s and 1960s. [1]
F.R. Leavis was an English literary critic who championed seriousness and moral depth in literature and criticized what he considered the amateur belletrism of his time. Leavis attended Cambridge University and then served throughout World War I as an ambulance bearer on the Western Front.
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26 lug 2017 · F. R. (Frank Raymond) Leavis (b. 14 July 1895–d. 14 April 1978) is often described as one of the most influential figures in the history of 20th-century literary criticism, particularly in British contexts.
Leavis, Frank Raymond nell'Enciclopedia Treccani - Treccani - Treccani. Critico inglese (Cambridge 1895 - ivi 1978), prof. nelle univ. di York (1965-68), del Galles (1969) e di Bristol (1970); fu tra i fondatori del periodico Scrutiny (che ha poi diretto fino al 1953).
27 feb 2020 · Frank Raymond Leavis was an English literary critic and university teacher and a major figure on the English-speaking cultural landscape during the middle decades of the twentieth century.
18 mar 2016 · F. R. Leavis became the major single target for the new critical theory of the 1970s. Both Raymond Williams in Politics and Letters (1979) and Terry Eagleton in Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983) bear witness to his enormous, ubiquitous influence in English Studies from the 1930s onwards.
