Eliot, Leavis, Lawrence: Nature and Significance of Value-judgement in Literary Criticism
T.S. Eliot’s literary criticism had persisted in maintaining a significantly high profile even after the high tide of British modernist writing had receded and the Derridean initiative had brushed all aside. Yet it would perhaps not be considered too off the mark to suggest that Eliot’s role as a cr...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:ebc_9401 https://doi.org/10.4000/ebc.9401 urn:doi:10.4000/ebc.9401 en https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/9401 2020-09-10T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/feal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Eliot, Leavis, Lawrence: Nature and Significance of Value-judgement in Literary Criticism Études britanniques contemporaines Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2271-5444 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1168-4917 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc Taneja, Gulshan R. T.S. Eliot’s literary criticism had persisted in maintaining a significantly high profile even after the high tide of British modernist writing had receded and the Derridean initiative had brushed all aside. Yet it would perhaps not be considered too off the mark to suggest that Eliot’s role as a critic of the novel has not received as much attention. Eliot’s response to D. H. Lawrence, for example, is a case in point.Eliot’s denigration of Lawrence and undervaluing of his achievement as a novelist (‘ . . . he never succeeded in making a work of art’, The Criterion, vol. x), his focus on Lawrence’s ‘sexual morbidity’, and his ‘lack of intelligence’, and the resistance that it provoked from among Lawrence’s supporters, offer fascinating insights into Eliot’s critical practice.More than that, there is also the question of the nature and significance of literary-critical value-judgement. How valid are such value-judgements? Eliot’s rejection of Lawrence, F. R. Leavis’s response to Eliot’s critical judgement, as also Dr. Leavis’s assessment of Eliot’s vision of life as such, the vision that he projects in his verse—these variables offer opportunities to raise interesting questions about critical sensibility and value-judgements. Longtemps la production critique d’Eliot est parvenue à maintenir son influence, bien après les années de gloire du modernisme, et en dépit des coups de boutoir de la critique derridéenne. Toutefois, il est peut-être pertinent d’avancer que les travaux critiques qu’Eliot a consacrés au roman n’ont pas à ce jour reçu l’attention qu’ils méritent. C’est notamment le cas des pages qu’Eliot a consacrées à Lawrence.Les critiques qu’il a formulées à l’encontre des romans de Lawrence (‘ . . . he never succeeded in making a work of art’, The Criterion, vol. x), ses commentaires sur la ‘morbidité sexuelle’ et sur le ‘manque d’intelligence’ de Lawrence, ainsi que la résistance que leur ont opposée nombre des partisans de ce dernier ouvrent de fascinantes perspectives sur l’œuvre critique d’Eliot. Il convient d’ajouter à cela la question de la nature et du sens du jugement critique en matière de critique littéraire, et de nous interroger sur la validité de tels jugements. Le rejet de Lawrence formulé par Eliot, les réactions de F.R. Leavis à ses propos, mais également l’évaluation de la vision éliottienne de l’existence que l’on doit à Leavis sont autant d’éléments qui nous permettront de soulever des questions sur la sensibilité et le jugement de valeur critiques. |
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T.S. Eliot’s literary criticism had persisted in maintaining a significantly high profile even after the high tide of British modernist writing had receded and the Derridean initiative had brushed all aside. Yet it would perhaps not be considered too off the mark to suggest that Eliot’s role as a critic of the novel has not received as much attention. Eliot’s response to D. H. Lawrence, for example, is a case in point.Eliot’s denigration of Lawrence and undervaluing of his achievement as a novelist (‘ . . . he never succeeded in making a work of art’, The Criterion, vol. x), his focus on Lawrence’s ‘sexual morbidity’, and his ‘lack of intelligence’, and the resistance that it provoked from among Lawrence’s supporters, offer fascinating insights into Eliot’s critical practice.More than that, there is also the question of the nature and significance of literary-critical value-judgement. How valid are such value-judgements? Eliot’s rejection of Lawrence, F. R. Leavis’s response to Eliot’s critical judgement, as also Dr. Leavis’s assessment of Eliot’s vision of life as such, the vision that he projects in his verse—these variables offer opportunities to raise interesting questions about critical sensibility and value-judgements. |
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Taneja, Gulshan R. |
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