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03414aam a2200325Ia 4500 001 065D99A200D511E888826E0497128E48 003 SILO 005 20180124010218 008 111230s2012 enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0199695172 020 $a 9780199695171 035 $a (OCoLC)769989321 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d UKMGB $d YDXCP $d YNK $d QGK $d UAT $d CDX $d BWX $d CUD $d MUU $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 050 4 $a PN99.G7 $b H55 2012 082 04 $a 801.950942659 $2 23 100 1 $a Hilliard, Christopher. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005066450 245 10 $a English as a vocation : $b the Scrutiny movement / $c Christopher Hilliard. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2012. 300 $a ix, 298 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "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 radio talks 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 context of 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 wrought influential 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 you approach 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?"--Publisher's website. 505 0 $a 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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [272]-290) and index. 600 10 $a Leavis, F. R. $q (Frank Raymond), $d 1895-1978. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80016972 630 00 $a Scrutiny (Cambridge, England) $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83128253 650 0 $a Criticism $z Cambridge $z Cambridge $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Criticism $x History $z Cambridge $z Cambridge $x History $y 20th century. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180124032623.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=065D99A200D511E888826E0497128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search