The Bradbury Circle: The Writer, the Critic, and the University, 1955-2000

布拉德伯里圈：作家、批评家和大学，1955-2000

• 批准号: 2412160
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of East Anglia
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2412160
• 关键词: Bradbury; Circle; Writer; Critic; University

My project is an intellectual history of the creative, critical, and educational work of Malcolm Bradbury, Lorna Sage, David Lodge and the literary journal Critical Quarterly, founded by C. B. Cox and A. E. Dyson in 1958. It brings to light a network of postwar public intellectuals I term the 'Bradbury circle', and investigates how these five individuals combined creative practice with academic literary criticism and university teaching. Alongside their university careers, these figures engaged variously with public-facing magazines, secondary schools, and television in an attempt to cultivate a plural and democratic literary culture, thus opposing the cultural pessimism of F. R. Leavis. By emphasising the importance of the Bradbury circle, who worked creatively and critically within and outside the English departments of British provincial and civic universities, I propose a significant alternative to the Oxbridge-focussed histories of the discipline that foreground a polarised conflict between Leavisism and 'Theory'.

我的项目是一部关于马尔科姆·布拉德伯里、洛娜·塞奇、大卫·洛奇和由C. B。考克斯和A. E.戴森1958年它揭示了战后公共知识分子的网络，我称之为“布拉德伯里圈”，并调查了这五个人如何将创作实践与学术文学批评和大学教学相结合。在大学生涯的同时，这些人物还参与了各种面向公众的杂志、中学和电视节目，试图培养一种多元民主的文学文化，从而反对F. R.利维斯通过强调布拉德伯里圈的重要性，谁创造性地和批判性地在英国省级和公民大学的英语系内外工作，我提出了一个重要的替代牛津剑桥为重点的学科，前景之间的两极分化的冲突Leaavism和“理论”的历史。