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R. Leavis: The Gnome of
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F. R. Leavis: The Gnome of Cambridge
by Roy Holland |
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UK price: £7.99 US price: $9.60
Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS
Format: Paperback:
Perfect binding , cream interior
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 142
ISBN 978-1908026217
Published: Aug 2011 |
This
is
the
text
of
the
original
handwritten
notes
taken
down
by
the
late
Professor
Roy
Holland
in
the
course
of
attending
the
tutorials
given
by
F.R.
Leavis,
while
he
was
a
student
at
Cambridge
University
studying
for
the
English
Tripos
examinations
(1954-1957).
These
notes
comprise
a
rich
vein
of
ore,
of
gems,
or
nuggets,
for
the
scholar
to
pick
up
at
will.
Roy
Holland
attended
Leavis's
tutorials
for
about
three
days
a
week.
They
were
held
in
groups
in
his
rooms
in
Downing
College.
Leavis's
divagations
on
Shakespeare
and
many
(often
startling!)
observations
on
writers
like
Wordsworth
and
Arnold
are
here
to
be
picked
up
by
the
scholar
or
literary
researcher-from
these
verbatim,
hitherto
unpublished
comments
of a
man
who
many
see
as
the
founder
of
modern
literary
criticism.
About the author
Roy Holland
was born in Birmingham. He
went to Africa in 1966 to
teach in the universities of
the Boleswa countries. In
1971 he went to Greece for
three years. He and his
family lived on the island
of Levkas for six months,
the Gulf of Corinth for a
similar period, and in Corfu
for a little over two years.
He wrote full-time until
1974, when he returned to
the U.K. and worked on a
research project until
returning to Africa in 1977.
Thereafter he lived in
Southern Africa and worked
in universities in Zimbabwe,
Lebowa and Venda. He was
Professor of English at the
University of the North, the
University of Venda, as well
as Dean of the Faculty of
Arts in the later 80's. He
retired early to write
full-time, and now lives in
Ledbury, Herefordshire.
Available from the
following on-line
bookstores:
Other
works by Roy Holland:
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THE
NOWHERE MAN
by Roy Holland
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UK price:
£8.99 US
price:
$17.95
Publisher: DIADEM
BOOKS
Format: Paperback:
Perfect binding ,
cream interior
Size : 6 x 9 (US
trade)
Pages: 262
ISBN:
978-0-9559741-0-6
Published: July-2008
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A young man
in
Birmingham,
in the
sixties,
escapes the
humdrum
mundanity of
life through
fantasies,
tries to
find
himself, and
finally
escapes his
dead-end
lifestyle by
gaining a
place at a
university.
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JOURNEY
TOWARDS
HIMSELF
by
Roy
Holland |
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UK
price:
£8.99
US
price:
$17.95
Publisher:
DIADEM
BOOKS
Format:
Paperback:
Perfect
binding
,
cream
interior
Size
: 6
x 9
(US
trade)
Pages:
262
ISBN:
978-0-9559741-1-3
Published:
July-2008
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A hilarious
evocation of
life as a
student at
Cambridge
University
in the
sixties,
shortly
after the
time of such
notable
figures as
F. R. Leavis,
C.S. Lewis
and E.M.
Forster.
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THE WAKING & MAKING OF PAUL GAUGUIN
A Play for Voices
by Roy Holland |
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UK price: £6.99 US price: $15.02
Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS
Format: Paperback:
Perfect binding , cream interior
Size : 6 x 9 (US trade)
Pages: 98
ISBN: 978-0-9559741-3-7
Published: July-2008 |
It was during his illness, in 1887, when Gauguin was 39 years old, that the battle dramatised in this play – a battle imagined in his body, and in his mind, and in his moral nature – could have taken place
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ALAN
PATON SPEAKING
The Lintrose
Conversations:
Interview with Alan
Paton
by Roy Holland
edited by Charles
Muller |
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UK price:
£14.60 US
price:
$28.95
Publisher: DIADEM
BOOKS
Format: Paperback:
Perfect binding ,
cream interior
Size : 6 x 9 (US
trade)
Pages: 114
ISBN:
978-0-9559741-4-4
Published:
August-2008
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This interview with Alan Paton by Roy Holland has never, until now, been published. The interview took place on June 19 and June 20, 1973, when Holland was a guest in Paton’s home, Lintrose, at Bothas Hill, Kloof, Natal. It provides many insights into Paton’s life, his political involvement as the founder of the Liberal party in South Africa, and his writings.
Contact the author by
email:
roy@royholland.fsnet.co.uk
 Roy
Holland
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