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

    by Lionel Abel. 244 pgs.

    "A self-help book as well as a manual for erotic pleasure enhancement."-Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
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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.

    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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    American Literature, American Culture (Chap. 3.3 "Reality in America" by Lionel Trilling) » Read Now

    by Gordon Hutner. 612 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    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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    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.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    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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    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.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    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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