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'.

我的项目是关于马尔科姆·布拉德伯里 (Malcolm Bradbury)、洛娜·塞奇 (Lorna Sage)、大卫·洛奇 (David Lodge) 的创作、批评和教育工作的思想史，以及由 C. B. Cox 和 A. E. Dyson 于 1958 年创办的文学期刊《批判季刊》(Critical Quarterly)。它揭示了战后公众的网络我将这些知识分子称为“布拉德伯里圈”，并研究了这五个人如何将创作实践与学术文学批评和大学教学结合起来。除了大学生涯外，这些人物还与面向公众的杂志、中学和电视进行各种接触，试图培养多元化和民主的文学文化，从而反对 F. R. 利维斯的文化悲观主义。通过强调布拉德伯里圈子的重要性，他们在英国省级和市立大学的英语系内外进行了创造性和批判性的工作，我提出了一个重要的替代方案，以取代以牛津剑桥为重点的学科历史，这些历史凸显了利维主义和“左派”之间的两极分化冲突。理论'。