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Trilling, Lionel - 1905–75, American critic, author, and teacher, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (B.A., 1925; M.A., 1926; Ph.D., 1938). He began teaching literature at Columbia in 1932 and became a full professor in 1948. His essays—collected as The Liberal Imagination (1950), The Opposing Self (1955, repr. 1979), A Gathering of Fugitives (1956), and Beyond Culture

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Lionel Trilling and the End of Romanticism, in Studies in Romanticism » Read Now
by Tracy Ware. 18 pgs.

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The American Writer and the European Tradition (includes "Contemporary American Literature in Its Relation to Ideas" by Lionel Trilling) » Read Now
by Margaret Denny, William H. Gilman. 192 pgs.

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Literature and Psychoanalysis (includes "Art and Neurosis" by Lionel Trilling) » Read Now
by Edith Kurzweil, William Phillips. 403 pgs.

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Wordsworth: Centenary Studies Presented at Cornell and Princeton Universities (includes "Wordsworth And the Iron Time" by Lionel Trilling) » Read Now
by Douglas Bush, Frederick A. Pottle, Earl Leslie Griggs. 178 pgs.

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Important Nonsense ("Lionel Trilling and His Critics" begins on p. 3) » Read Now
by Lionel Abel. 244 pgs.

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Strangers to This Ground: Cultural Diversity in Contemporary American Writing (Chap. 2 "Lionel Trilling and the American Reality") » Read Now
by W. M. Frohock. 182 pgs.

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Lionel Trilling & the Crisis at Columbia, in New Criterion » Read Now
by Jeffrey Meyers. 6 pgs.

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Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990 (Chap. 8 "Refractions of Lionel Trilling") » Read Now
by Susanne Klingenstein. 492 pgs.

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In this groundbreaking study, the author examines the gradual opening of literary academe to Jewish faculty and analyzes the critical work Jewish scholars undertook to achieve their integration into an exclusive WASP domain.
Beginning her story at Harvard University, Klingenstein describes the unique...
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In this groundbreaking study, the author examines the gradual opening of literary academe to Jewish faculty and analyzes the critical work Jewish scholars undertook to achieve their integration into an exclusive WASP domain.
Beginning her story at Harvard University, Klingenstein describes the unique intellectual paths taken by scholars such as Harry Levin, Daniel Aaron, M. H. Abrams, Leo Marx, and Sacvan Bercovitch. At Columbia University, Klingenstein argues that the singular Jewish presence of Lionel Trilling shaped the minds and inspired the careers of Jewish intellectuals as different as Cynthia Ozick, Norman Podhoretz, Steven Marcus, and Carolyn Heilbrun.
Once Jewish scholars had attained a strong foothold in literary academe, pioneering spirits such as Robert Alter and Ruth R. Wisse turned their attention from English and American to Jewish literature in Hebrew and Yiddish.
Written as an interconnected series of twelve lucid and compelling portraits of major figures in the history ofAmerican literary criticism, this book illuminates the element of serendipity in culture-formation and exposes the social and intellectual forces at work in cultural change.
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American Literature, American Culture (Chap. 3.3 "Reality in America" by Lionel Trilling) » Read Now
by Gordon Hutner. 612 pgs.

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American Literature, American Culture is the first anthology of American literary criticism to appear in many years. Its focus is the tradition of American literary criticism as cultural critique and includes essays which debate the social and political importance of American writing. These...
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American Literature, American Culture is the first anthology of American literary criticism to appear in many years. Its focus is the tradition of American literary criticism as cultural critique and includes essays which debate the social and political importance of American writing. These documents draw from the early years of the republic, through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their shared concerns are the terms on which a national literature might be based, the complications of gender and class and the challenges posed by race in identifying a national cultural identity. The anthology also features a substantial selection of recent essays.
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My Father and the Weak-Eyed Devils, in American Scholar » Read Now
by James Trilling. 28 pgs.

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In the Mainstream: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1950s-1980s (Chap. 3 "The Critics: Trilling, Rahv, Kazin, Fiedler, Howe") » Read Now
by Louis Harap. 208 pgs.

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In the Mainstream represents the second in a multi-volume study of the Jewish American as both writer and character in our nation's literature. This book focuses on the period from 1950 to the 1980s. The author provides abundant evidence that by the end of the 1950s, Jewish writers had achieved full...
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In the Mainstream represents the second in a multi-volume study of the Jewish American as both writer and character in our nation's literature. This book focuses on the period from 1950 to the 1980s. The author provides abundant evidence that by the end of the 1950s, Jewish writers had achieved full status in the realm of American fiction. His study examines precursors and strains of influence relating to this development, with special attention to the influence occasioned by Menorah Journal, Partisan Review, and Commentary.
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The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s » Read Now
by Alan M. Wald. 442 pgs.

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The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe: With a New Introduction by the Author (Chap. 4 "New York, Jewish, And Other Intellectuals") » Read Now
by Russell Jacoby. 298 pgs.

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The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture (Chap. 2 "The Moral Imagination in Modern American Criticism") » Read Now
by Giles Gunn. 211 pgs.

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Giles Gunn's challenging new work is at once a passionately argued defense of the kind of moral reflection once associated in America with the writings of Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson and an acknowledgment that this pragmatic legacy must be reevaluated in the light of challenges posed by...
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Giles Gunn's challenging new work is at once a passionately argued defense of the kind of moral reflection once associated in America with the writings of Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson and an acknowledgment that this pragmatic legacy must be reevaluated in the light of challenges posed by structuralist and post-structuralist theory. Gunn's perceptive analysis, which includes lengthy discussions of such thinkers as Kenneth Burke, Clifford Geertz, Mikhail Bakhtin, Richard Rorty, Trilling, and Wilson, challenges the assumptions of modern criticism with a revised interpretation of pragmatism and its critical legacy. Part critical analysis, part philosophical argument, part literary and cultural history, this work is a carefully delineated vision of what criticism actively engaged in its society can accomplish.
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Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon (includes "New Americanists: Revisionist Interventions into the Canon") » Read Now
by Donald E. Pease. 344 pgs.

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A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature » Read Now
by Dorothy Nyren. 554 pgs.

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