English as a vocation the Scrutiny movement Hilliard, Christopher. creator text bibliography Electronic books. History enk Oxford Oxford University Press 2012 monographic eng remote 1 online resource 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 in 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 radiotalks 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 contextof 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 wroughtinfluential 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 youapproach 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? 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. specialized by Christopher Hilliard. Includes bibliographical references. e-uk-en Leavis, F. R. (Frank Raymond) 1895-1978 Scrutiny (Cambridge, England) Leavis, F. R. (Frank Raymond) 1895-1978 Scrutiny (Cambridge, England) Criticism England Cambridge History 20th century Criticism Study and teaching (Higher) England Cambridge History 20th century Critique Angleterre Cambridge Histoire 20e siècle LITERARY CRITICISM Semiotics & Theory Criticism Criticism Study and teaching (Higher) England Cambridge 1900-1999 fast PN99 801.9/5/0942659 English as a vocation Hilliard, Christopher. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012 9780191636509 0191636509 128088004X 9781280880049 9780199949946 0199949948 9780199695171 0199695172 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/4902 CDX 120215 20260318190921.4 in00005708511 eng