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Complaints about the decline of critical standards in literature and culture in general have been voiced for much of the twentieth century. These have extended from F.R. Leavis's laments for a "lost center of intelligence and urbane spirit," to current opposition to the predominance of radical critical theory in contemporary literature departments. Humanist criticism, which has as its object the... Read more
1: Modernism and the Critical Spirit; 2: English Social Criticism and the Spirit of Reformation; 3: The Reality of Disillusion in T. S. Eliot; 4: The Organic Society of F. R. Leavis; 5: A Postscript to the Higher Criticism; 6: The Formalist Avant-Garde and the Autonomy of Aesthetic Values; 7: Aristocrats and Jacobins; 8: Flaubert and the Powerlessness of Art; 9: The Blasphemy of Joycean Art
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Eugene Goodheart
