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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 establish...
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关于George Eliot和Henry James的部分十分精彩。Leavis认为伟大的小说不是对生活的真实呈现，而是最大限度地探索生活的无限可能（possibilities of life），因此认为moralized fable也是可以接受的小说形式。
读一本真是要了老命了
The novelists' greatness lie in "the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilites of life." For George Eliot, the novel "was not primarily a pictore of life, capable of deriving a high value from its form, but a moralized fable, the last word of philosophy endeavoring to teach by example (qtd. in Henry James)."
The eagle-eyed critic.
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