COLLOQUIAL
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COLLOQUIAL. A semi-technical term for the
VERNACULAR form of a language (
colloquial Arabic) or, sometimes mildly pejorative, for informal, everyday speech, including
SLANG (
colloquial usage).
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The Oracular F. R. Leavis.
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...anything but "jam for the masses," Leavis declared that Sir Charles was "utterly...matters." The lectures by Snow and Leavis, published in 1959 and 1963 respectively...impermissible." The reputation of F. R. Leavis, who died in 1978, rests on his...
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F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...means us to conclude truistically that Leavis spent much of his life writing literary...At the very least, it suggests that Leavis's whole life was steeped in a critical...meaningful aspects of his existence. Leavis lived, so it would appear, the "examined...
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Meeting in meaning: philosophy and theory in the work of F.R. Leavis.(Bibliography)
Magazine article from: Modern Age; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...former fellows: the literary teacher and critic, F.R. Leavis (1895-1978). Leavis was in many ways the academic glory of Downing...that one felt was really important in life.... Leavis's teaching always seemed to engage both these...
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F.R. Leavis: Essays and Documents.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2006; 457 words
; 0826485766 F.R. Leavis; essays and documents. Ed. by Ian Mackillop and Richard Storer. Continuum Publishing Group 2005 314 pages $39.95 Hardcover PR55 F.R. Leavis is considered to be one of the most important British literary critics...
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F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review; 10/1/1997; ; 435 words
; F.R. Leat;is: A Life in Criticism...The great literary critic Leavis was no anti-Semite, but...explains how and to what extent Leavis enriched the study of English...from MacKillop's record that Leavis was not a man capable of making...
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Il Novecento inglese e italiano. Saggi critici e comparativi. Ezra Pound, T.S. Elliot, Eugenio Montale, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Mario Luzi, Sergio Solmi, F.R. Leavis, Bertrand Russell, Rabindranath Tagore, Stephen Spender e Philip Larkin.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Ungaretti, Mario Luzi, Sergio Solmi, F. R. Leavis, Bertrand Russell, Rabindranath...time in Eliot, tradition in Luzi, Leavis (to whom the volume is dedicated...acquaintance with the likes of Montale, Leavis and Pound. Il Novecento inglese...
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Q.D. Leavis's criticism: The human core. (Reconsideration).
Magazine article from: Modern Age; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...collaboration with her famous husband, F.R. Leavis (1895-1978), Q.D. Leavis...relationship with her husband, F.R. Leavis, as forming "one of the most...more the work of Q.D. than of F.R. Leavis, says it all: We dedicate this...
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Letter: Unfair cultural caricatures of Leavis the `Luddite'
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/26/1994; ; 525 words
; ...March) may not like the criticisms F. R. Leavis made of C. P. Snow, but he ought...account of them. His caricature of Leavis, as a bilious chair-craving academic...Snow's jibe at "Luddites" - that Leavis regarded it as the responsibility...
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Letters: Fiction: Leavis's 'dumb judgement'
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/21/1995; ; 372 words
; ...Williams, reviewing Ian MacKillop's F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism (Weekend, 15 July), writes of Leavis's often extraordinarily dumb judgements...is better than Women in Love. In Leavis's 1976 Preface to Thoughts, Words...
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Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel: From Leavis to Levinas. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Style; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel: From Leavis to Levinas. London: Routledge...moral criticism based on it, such as F. R. Leavis's The Great Tradition, is flawed...embodied in characters and plots; Leavis's ethics of fiction is bound up...
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F. R. Leavis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
F. R. Leavis (Frank Raymond Leavis) , 1895-1978, English critic and...1972) was a collection of lectures. He was married to Q. D. Leavis . Bibliography: See studies by F. Mulhern (1978), and F. P. Bilan (1979).
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Leavis, F. R.
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Leavis, F. R. Frank Raymond Leavis (1895–1978), critic, was Cambridge born, bred...encouraged close attention to the text. In 1929 he married Q. D. Leavis (1906–81), whose study of the relationship between...
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Leavis, F.R.
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Leavis, F.R. ( Frank Raymond ) (1895–1978) English literary critic. His works of criticism include The Great Tradition (1948...
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Leavis, Queenie (Dorothy)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Leavis, Queenie (Dorothy), née Roth...Girton College, Cambridge. She married F. R. Leavis in 1929, and they worked for many years...literary journalism. She collaborated with Leavis and Denys Thomson in Culture and Environment...
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Q. D. Leavis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Q. D. Leavis (Queenie Dorothy Leavis), 1906-81, British literary critic; wife of F. R. Leavis . After studying at Cambridge, she wrote Fiction and the Reading...
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