If Woolfโs criticism was Paterian in its vision of the relationship between reader and text, then that of Murry, and his fellow editor A. R. Orage, was firmly Arnoldian. Both saw literature as essential to the upholding of a certain set of values, generally characterised in terms of an appeal to โtruthsโ that could rescue the age from the social and spiritual prob- lems it faced. Indeed, Orage chose an … Read the rest
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Criticism and the Modernists: Woolf, Murry, Orage
The resistance to literary scholarship, in the form of a set of critical philos- ophies that emphasised the relationship between text and reader over the codes and practices of academic study, was to become a recurring theme in the arguments about academic English that took place over the next few decades. Significantly, this debate about different forms of literary knowledge took place not just within the universities, but also in … Read the rest