ABSTRACT This is a review essay of Joseph North’s Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History. I interrogate many of North’s claims, most notably his argument about the way a shift from literary criticism to literary scholarship has blunted the capacity of people working in literary studies to engage in a socially critical praxis. I use his book as an occasion to explore the relationship between literary studies (as ‘knowledge’) and the meaning-making that occurs within English classrooms when students engage with the texts chosen for study. I argue that North’s failure to make connections between English teaching and the literary critical projects of people like I.A. Richards, F.R. Leavis and Raymond Williams ultimately limits the reach of his book. For each of these critics, literary criticism was deeply embedded in an educational project that extended far beyond the confines of the academy, and their literary criticism might usefully be reread in these terms.

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遗漏的东西：约瑟夫·诺斯文学批评的评论论文：简明政治史，剑桥，马萨诸塞州和伦敦，英国：哈佛大学出版社，2017 年

摘要 这是约瑟夫·诺斯的文学批评：简明政治史的评论文章。我询问了诺斯的许多主张，最值得注意的是他关于从文学批评转向文学学术的方式削弱了从事文学研究的人从事社会批判实践的能力的论点。我以他的书为契机，探讨文学研究（作为“知识”）与英语课堂中学生参与所选课文时产生的意义之间的关系。我认为诺斯未能将英语教学与 IA Richards、FR Leavis 和 Raymond Williams 等人的文学批评项目联系起来，最终限制了他的书的影响范围。对于这些评论家中的每一个，