Leavis

Question 1

Leavis says that today [i.e. at the time of publication] “culture is at a crisis”. What is this crisis? (Quote relevant passages from the text)

Answer 1

• Modernization has introduced new challenges for the high culture. Mass production of popular culture or mass culture is pushing high culture to the edge.
• “Change has been so catastrophic that the generations find it hard to adjust themselves to each other, and parents are helpless to deal with their children”

Question 2

F.R. Leavis does not use the term ‘high culture’. He speaks of ‘minority culture’. What does he mean by this? What is its function? (Quote relevant passages from the text).

Answer 2

• “culture has always been in minority keeping”
• only a few who are capable of unprompted, first-hand judgment

Question 3

Leavis says that today [i.e. at the time of publication] “culture is at a crisis”. What is this crisis? (Quote relevant passages from the text)

Answer 3

• Modernization has introduced new challenges for the high culture. Mass production of popular culture or mass culture is pushing high culture to the edge
• Change has been so catastrophic that the generations find it hard to adjust themselves to each other, and parents are helpless to deal with their children”