The Great Tradition : George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad

基本信息

Edited by：F.R. Leavis

Publisher：Faber and Faber

Published：29 May 2008

Language：English

Format Paperback：304 pages

ISBN 10：0571243622

ISBN 13：9780571243624

Weight：326 g

Dimensions：199 x 126 x25（mm）

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

"英国最伟大的velists是简·奥斯汀，乔治·艾略特，亨利·詹姆斯和约瑟夫·康拉德"里维斯最具争议性的著作《伟大的传统》就是这样开始的。这本书1948年首次出版，对英国小说进行了毫不妥协的批判性-论战性调查。里维斯认为，道德的严肃性是把一个作家列入最优秀的作家名单的必要标准。在他的论证过程中，他把d·h·劳伦斯加入了万神殿，并指出狄更斯的“一个完全严肃的艺术作品”是“艰难时期”;而劳伦斯·斯特恩、亨利·菲尔丁、詹姆斯·乔伊斯等人则在天平的天平上被发现有欠缺。[里维斯]让人对“阅读”有了新的认识……整个批评工作获得了一种新的、令人振奋的品质。(弗兰克·克莫德，《伦敦书评》)。

'The great English velists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.' So begins F. R. Leavis' most controversial book, the Great Tradition, an uncompromising critical-polemical survey of English fiction, first published in 1948. Leavis makes his case for moral seriousness as the necessary criterion for an author's inclusion in any list of the finest velists. In the course of his argument he adds D. H. Lawrence to the pantheon, and singles out Hard Times as Dickens' one 'completely serious work of art'; while Lawrence Sterne, Henry Fielding, and James Joyce are among those weighed in the balance and found wanting. [Leavis] gave one a new idea of what it meant to read...the whole business of criticism acquired a new and exhilarating quality. (Frank Kermode, London Review of Books).

作者简介

F.R.里维斯1895年出生于剑桥，他在那里度过了余生，并一直教书。他在第一次世界大战中志愿担任担架兵，在西线被毒气毒死。1930年，他被任命为剑桥大学唐宁学院的英语研究部主任，在那里待了30年，他经常与大学建制机构发生争执。1932年，他和妻子奎妮·罗斯(Queenie Roth)创办了颇具影响力的《细察》(Scrutiny)杂志，该杂志一直持续到1953年。他是现代文学批评发展的重要人物之一，也是将英语提升为一门严肃的学术学科的重要人物之一。他于1978年去世。

F.R. Leavis was born in 1895 in Cambridge, where he would live and teach for most of the rest of his life. He volunteered as a stretcher-bearer in the First World War, and was badly gassed on the Western Front. Appointed Director of Studies in English at Downing College, Cambridge, in 1930, he remained there for the next thirty years, often at odds with the University establishment. In 1932 he and his wife Queenie Roth founded the hugely influential journal Scrutiny, which ran until 1953. He was one of the most important figures in the development of modern literary criticism, and in the elevation of English as a serious academic subject. He died in 1978.