LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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F. R Leavis
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Derrida
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ST Coleridge
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Highlights of the book In his work, Leavis names Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James, and Joseph Conrad as the great English novelists.
Detailed explanation-2: -In F.R. Leavis. In The Great Tradition (1948) he reassessed English fiction, proclaiming Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James, and Joseph Conrad as the great novelists of the past and D.H. Lawrence as their only successor (D.H. Lawrence: Novelist, 1955).
Detailed explanation-3: -Leavis, he makes self-discipline and maturity the indispensable ingredients of good writing. Consequently he agreed with his wife to put Jane Austen rather than a more obviously romantic novelist at the head of his tradition.
Detailed explanation-4: -The tradition of the literati is known as the ‘great tradition’, which has the following characteristics: It is the tradition of the lettered people who are few in number. They are reflective, i.e. they think about the tradition, make it sophisticated and systematize it, thus making it universal.