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SUMMARY:Literary Criticism and the New Left (1956-62) - Alexander Hutton (
 Faculty of History\, University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:The first British New Left (1956-62) was a significant intelle
 ctual and cultural movement\, which attempted to create a political space 
 between Soviet Communism and western capitalism. The group’s attitude to
 wards literature and criticism has\, as yet\, been under-represented. Alth
 ough the movement is often seen as instrumental in the development of Cult
 ural Studies as a discipline\, its attitude towards literature as a reposi
 tory of positive values was an essential part of its intellectual formatio
 n. In reviews\, polemics\, and discussions about contemporary literature s
 uch as Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago\, the ‘Angry Young Men’ grou
 p of writers\, such as Kingsley Amis\, John Osborne\, and John Wain\, or t
 he ‘New Wave’ dramatists\, such as John Arden\, Shelagh Delaghney\, an
 d Arnold Wesker\, the New Left put forwards an influential and highly orig
 inal approach to literature which was as significant\, if not more so\, th
 an the groups other interests in politics\, economics\, and popular cultur
 e.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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