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Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher. He was one of the leading U.S. critics of the 20th century who analyzed the contemporary cultural, social, and political implications of literature.
Jun 30, 2024 · Lionel Trilling (born July 4, 1905, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 5, 1975, New York, N.Y.) was an American literary critic and teacher whose criticism was informed by psychological, sociological, and philosophical methods and insights.
Oct 30, 2018 · It is rare for a literary critic to remain alive for readers decades after his death—even rarer than for a novelist or a poet. Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) belonged to what Randall Jarrell called “the age of criticism,” a time when the analysis and judgment of texts had a prestige that is hard to imagine today.
Jul 1, 2000 · MOST Americans who respond seriously to books and ideas seem to agree that Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) became in the postwar years and remains today our most influential, most admired, and at...
Apr 3, 2017 · There are four important principal themes in Trilling’s study of Arnold: (1) Arnold’s relating literature to wider social concerns; (2) Arnold’s ‘disinterestedness’, or, preference for critical observation and thinking rather than immediate action; (3) Arnold’s synthesis of reason and faith as expressed via culture; and (4) Arnold ...
Lionel Trilling (1905–1975) Critic. Columbia College 1925, PhD 1938. Faculty 1927–74. One of the most public of the twentieth century's public intellectuals, Lionel Trilling became nationally known for both his scholarship and his literary criticism, which appealed to a wide audience.
Trilling is thought of as a modernist, but his celebrated essay “On the Teaching of Modern Literature” (1961) makes clear that “modernism” for him meant Proust, Joyce, Lawrence, Eliot, Yeats, Mann, Kafka, Rilke, and Gide. As these letters show, his attitude to the literature of his own time was wary.
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