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(1997) Twentieth-century literary theory, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
In Leavis we have a critic who becomes aware of the paradoxes inherent in romantic expressionism, and whose solution is a remarkably interesting synthesis of expressionist and mimetic theories. In his criticism we have the most thoroughgoing attempt to retain, on the one hand, the emphasis on the emotional importance of literature, and yet to provide, on the other, objective criteria for judging the quality of emotion a poem presents. …
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_10
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Newton, K. M. (1997)., John Casey: "Object, feeling and judgement: F. R. Leavis", in K. M. Newton (ed.), Twentieth-century literary theory, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 41-44.
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