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The Minority Press
The Minority Press was a short-lived British publishing house founded in 1930 by Gordon Fraser (1911–1981) while he was an undergraduate student at St. John's College (Cambridge). Fraser was an undergraduate student of F. R. Leavis. The Minority Press was essentially the book publishing arm of the Leavis camp of literary criticism. The Press published a series of six pamphlets, several reprint editions with new introductions, and a few longer essays on literary topics. The first publication of the Press was Leavis' manifesto, ''Mass Civilization and Minority Culture'' (1930). Most of the other initial authors were fellow Cambridge students. Its last publication was in 1933. At least some of the titles were printed by W. Heffer and Sons, Ltd. Cambridge, England. Origin of the name The name of the press comes from Leavis' self-positioning as a literary critic upholding a minority – rather than a mass culture – stance; against an "anything goes" pluralism. Leavis wrote t ...
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Minority
Minority may refer to: Politics * Minority government, formed when a political party does not have a majority of overall seats in parliament * Minority leader, in American politics, the floor leader of the second largest caucus in a legislative body Society *Minor (law), legal category of people under the age of majority **Age of majority, the threshold of adulthood as recognized or declared in law **Legal age, age at which a person may legally engage in a certain activity * Minority group, a category of people differentiated from the social majority (e.g. ethnic minority) * Sexual minority, a group whose sexual identity, orientation or practices differ from the majority of society Music * "Minority" (Gigi Gryce song), a 1953 jazz standard * "Minority" (Green Day song), a 2000 punk rock song * "Minority", a song by the Subhumans from their 1983 album ''The Day the Country Died'' Other uses * Minority (philosophy), concept coined by philosopher Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattar ...
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Ronald Bottrall
(Francis James) Ronald Bottrall (2 September 1906, Camborne, Cornwall – 25 June 1989) was a Cornish poet. He was praised highly by F.R. Leavis, Anthony Burgess and Martin Seymour-Smith, and deprecated by Ian Hamilton and Martin Amis. Bottrall was educated at Redruth Grammar School and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Career * Lector in English, University of Helsingfors, Finland, 1929–31 * Commonwealth fund fellowship, Princeton University, USA, 1931–3* Johore Professor of English Language and Literature, Raffles College, Singapore, 1933–37 * Assistant Director, British Institute, Florence, Italy, 1937–38 * Secretary, SOAS, 1939–45 * Air Ministry: Temporary Administrative Officer, 1940; Priority Officer, 1941 * British Council Representative: in Sweden, 1941; in Italy, 1945; in Brazil, 1954; in Greece, 1957; in Japan (and Cultural Counsellor, HM Embassy, Tokyo), 1959 * Controller of Education, British Council, 1950–54 * Chief, Fellowships and Training Branch, Foo ...
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1930 Establishments In England
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off ...
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Publishing Companies Of The United Kingdom
Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newspapers, and magazines. With the advent of digital information systems, the scope has expanded to include electronic publishing such as ebooks, academic journals, micropublishing, websites, blogs, video game publishing, and the like. Publishing may produce private, club, commons or public goods and may be conducted as a commercial, public, social or community activity. The commercial publishing industry ranges from large multinational conglomerates such as Bertelsmann, RELX, Pearson and Thomson Reuters to thousands of small independents. It has various divisions such as trade/retail publishing of fiction and non-fiction, educational publishing (k-12) and academic and scientific publishing. Publishing is also undertaken by governments, civi ...
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Publishing Companies Established In 1930
Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newspapers, and magazines. With the advent of digital information systems, the scope has expanded to include electronic publishing such as ebooks, academic journals, micropublishing, websites, blogs, video game publishing, and the like. Publishing may produce private, club, commons or public goods and may be conducted as a commercial, public, social or community activity. The commercial publishing industry ranges from large multinational conglomerates such as Bertelsmann, RELX, Pearson and Thomson Reuters to thousands of small independents. It has various divisions such as trade/retail publishing of fiction and non-fiction, educational publishing (k-12) and academic and scientific publishing. Publishing is also undertaken by governments, ...
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Lionel Charles Knights
Lionel Charles Knights (15 May 1906 – 8 March 1997) was an English literary critic, an authority on Shakespeare and his period. His essay ''How many children had Lady Macbeth?'' (1933) is a classic of modern criticism. He became King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge in 1965. Early life He was born in Grantham and initially attended The King's School in the town, followed by Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow and Cambridgeshire High School for Boys.MacKillop, Ian"Knights, Lionel Charles (1906-1997)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, October 2009. Retrieved 14 March 2018 He was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he read History and English, graduating with a first-class degree in 1928. In his final undergraduate year he won the Charles Oldham Shakespeare prize, shared with Humphrey Jennings. He was elected to a research scholarship at Christ's College, Cambridge in 193 ...
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Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include ''Ripostes'' (1912), ''Hugh Selwyn Mauberley'' (1920), and his 800-page Epic poetry, epic poem, ''The Cantos'' (c. 1917–1962). Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, he helped discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce. He was responsible for the 1914 serialization of Joyce's ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'', the 1915 publication of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", and the serialization from 1918 of Joyce's ''Ulysses (novel), Ulysses''. Hemingway wrote ...
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Norman Angell
Sir Ralph Norman Angell (26 December 1872 – 7 October 1967) was an English Nobel Peace Prize winner. He was a lecturer, journalist, author and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party. Angell was one of the principal founders of the Union of Democratic Control. He served on the Council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, was an executive for the World Committee against War and Fascism, a member of the executive committee of the League of Nations Union, and the president of the Abyssinia Association. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1931 and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933.Angell biography
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Gordon Fraser (publisher)
Gordon Fraser (26 February 1911 – 27 June 1981) was a British publisher and literary editor. Through his eponymous gallery, he is considered to have "revolutionized greetings card design and quality". Biography Fraser was born of a Scottish father and English mother and brought up in England.
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