Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)
Autore di The Liberal Imagination
Sull'Autore
Trilling has exerted a wide influence upon literature and criticism: as university professor at Columbia, where he taught English literature, and in his long association with Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, and the Kenyon School of English (now the School of Letters, Indiana University). He mostra altro considered himself a true "liberal"---having a "vision of a general enlargement of [individual] freedom and rational direction in human life. Yet even liberalism, Trilling insisted, was simply one of several ways of organizing the complexity of life; however, it can reveal "variousness and possibility" just as literature, its subject, does. Trilling was viewed as a genteel moralist, but never would settle for mere simplification in literary analysis even if it led to understanding. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Lionel Trilling
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Volume I: The Middle Ages through the Eighteenth Century (1973) — A cura di — 187 copie
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Volume II: 1800 to the Present (1973) — Joint Comp. — 173 copie
A Company of Readers : Uncollected Writings of W. H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling from the Reader's… (2001) 122 copie
The Oxford anthology of English literature — A cura di — 25 copie
The life and work of Sigmund Freud (two-volume abridged edition) Volume one (1984) — A cura di; Introduzione — 14 copie
The life and work of Sigmund Freud (two-volume abridged edition) Volume two (1986) — A cura di — 5 copie
Portable Matthew Arnold, The 2 copie
Literatura e Sociedade 1 copia
PERSPECTIVES USA 2 - Winter 1953 1 copia
Más allá de la cultura 1 copia
La mitad del camino 1 copia
Encounter (Lionel Trilling's review of Lolita) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
La letteratura e le idee 1 copia
Opere correlate
Omaggio alla Catalogna (1938) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni; Narratore, alcune edizioni — 6,151 copie
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Collaboratore — 364 copie
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (1977) — Collaboratore — 294 copie
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud: Edited and Abridged in One Volume (1953) — A cura di — 154 copie
English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism (1960) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 153 copie
Selected Short Stories of John O'Hara (Modern Library Classics) (1947) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 117 copie
The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture (1964) — Introduzione — 107 copie
Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition, Based on the texts of Hyder Edward Rollins (1950) — A cura di — 72 copie
The Commentary reader; two decades of articles and stories (1966) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 41 copie
Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and the Schism in the American Soul (2002) — Collaboratore — 25 copie
Hemingway and his critics, an international anthology (1961) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 24 copie
Romanticism Reconsidered: Selected Papers from the English Institute (English Institute Essays) (1963) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 20 copie
The study of literature, a handbook of critical essays and terms (1960) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 19 copie
The Partisan reader; ten years of Partisan review, 1934-1944: an anthology (1946) — Introduzione — 16 copie
Die zwei Kulturen : literarische und naturwissenschaftliche Intelligenz ; C. P. Snows These in der Diskussion (1967) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
The stature of Theodore Dreiser; a critical survey of the man and his work (1955) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 5 copie
Modern Short Stories — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Trilling, Lionel Mordechai
- Data di nascita
- 1905-07-04
- Data di morte
- 1975-11-05
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Queens, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Columbia University (PhD|English Literature|1938)
Columbia University (AM|1926)
Columbia College (AB|1925) - Attività lavorative
- university professor
literary critic - Relazioni
- Trilling, Diana (spouse)
Hollander, John (student)
Ozick, Cynthia (student)
Menand, Louis (student)
Ginsberg, Allen (student)
Kerouac, Jack (student) - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1951])
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Phi Beta Kappa
Athenaeum Club
Century Club (mostra tutto 12)
Columbia University (professor)
Harvard University (professor)
Kenyon School of English (senior fellow)
Indiana School of Letters (senior fellow)
The Kenyon Review (editor)
Partisan Review (editor) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Jefferson Lecture (1972)
Mark Van Doren Award (1966)
Brandeis University Creative Arts Award (1967-68)
Columbia University's first tenured Jewish professor in the English department - Breve biografia
- Lionel Trilling became America's most influential and most admired literary critic in the years after World War II. He was also one of Columbia University's legendary professors, teaching literature and cultural history there for more than 40 years.
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- Utenti
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- Popolarità
- #8,744
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 15
- ISBN
- 105
- Lingue
- 7
- Preferito da
- 5
Lionel Trilling’s classic collection of essays from such journals as the Partisan Review in the 1940s provides a refreshing antidote to the tweets and blog posts that often serve for critical thought these days. Trilling was, according to Louis Menand, a “liberal anticommunist” with a grudge against the American Marxism typified by the literary historian V. L. Parrington. Parrington, he said, had a narrowly materialist view of reality. Trilling’s critique of Marxism made old-school radicals like Irving Howe say he lacked social conscience. Trilling has a sharp eye for the overly simple. He admires Freud but is critical of Sherwood Anderson and others who oversimplified Freudian insights. Even Freud, he says, does that at times. He praises Henry James and Mark Twain, both of whom he said had a well-nuanced realism. In talking about Twain, he quotes Pascal’s comment that a river is a road that moves. Huckleberry Finn, he says, has moral passion and a good blend of romantic imagination and social realism. Trilling also admires the blend of realism and romanticism in the early Wordsworth. Wordsworth’s Immortality Ode, he says, is not a poem about growing old but a poem about growing up. He appreciates Tacitus for having a more nuanced view of history than he is usually credited with. He deplores Kipling for oversimplifying nationalism and Kinsey for dehumanizing sex. He likes the moral realism of European comedy of manners, a form he says is rare in American literature. F. Scott Fitzgerald he sees as a moralist who depicts an unresolved struggle between free will and circumstance. Trilling does not think the novel is a dead form, but he does not like writers he thinks ideological or self-indulgent, like Dos Passos, O’Neill and Wolfe. He prefers writers like Faulkner and Hemingway who express all the contradictions in American culture. In sum, Trilling’s attack on Parrington may be beating an already dead horse, and I am not sure many would agree that The Princess Casamassima is the best novel by Henry James. But his discussions of Twain and Wordsworth are thoughtful and his warnings against ideological excesses are more apt than ever. 4 stars.… (altro)