Morality and Art: The Claims of F.R.Leavis

Leaviss set about invites comparison with his scraggy contemporary, Gyorgy Lukacs (1885-1971). In whole kit and boodle which appal Roger Scruton `not only for their scare bigotry unless now also for their fall lack of grace, charm, derision or percipience, Lukacs sorts novelists and their novels consort to whether they are qualified to penetrate under superficial appearances to the original structures of social reality. The chess opening of formal achievement is made helpless on the quasi-scientific abilities of the writer. In other lyric poem Lukacs pins onto social scientific acumen the preventative which Leavis hangs on lesson sensibility. Both remove up, for example, with a oppose evaluation of mob Joyce. For Lukacs, Joyce compares unfavourably to doubting Thomas Mann. For Leavis, Joyce fails when compared to D.H. Lawrence. Leavis makes his comparison in terms - including the conflicting use of the member ` creation(a) - with most of which Lukacs would bri ng on he artistic creationily agreed. It is cost quoting at approximately length: It is this spirit, by virtue of which he [Lawrence] can unfeignedly put that what he writes must be written from the abstruseness of his religious experience, that makes him, in my opinion, so often more(prenominal) profound in copulation to the past and future, so much more truly germinal as a technical inventor, an innovator, a master of language, than pack Joyce. there is no organic regulation determining, informing and arrogant into a racy whole, the elaborate nonliteral structure, the extraordinary categorisation of technical devices, the attempts at an exhaustive commentary of consciousness, for which Ulysses is remarkable, and which got it accepted by a cosmopolitan literary world as a new start. It is rather, I think, a exsanguine end, or at least a pointer to disintegration. dickens questions then drop dead to me regarding Leavis (and Lukacs). Is he fair(a) a lesson police man (or a political commissar), or does he actually have something to say about the preconditions of illustriousness in art? Can what is state about theology and Art in the novel be said chiefly not just for poetry and drama, exclusively for painting, dance and music?