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Lionel Trilling

    4 juli 1905 – 5 november 1975

    Lionel Trilling was een vooraanstaand Amerikaans literatuurcriticus en docent die het 20e-eeuwse denken aanzienlijk heeft beïnvloed. Als belangrijk lid van de New Yorkse Intellectuelen en een medewerker van de Partisan Review, onderzocht hij de diepe verbanden tussen literatuur en de hedendaagse culturele, sociale en politieke implicaties ervan. Zijn werk belichtte hoe literaire teksten de wereld om ons heen weerspiegelen en vormgeven.

    The Experience of Literature
    Beyond culture
    The Middle of the Journey
    The Moral Obligation To Be Intelligent
    Romantic Poetry and Prose
    The Journey Abandoned
    • The Journey Abandoned

      The Unfinished Novel

      • 167bladzijden
      • 6 uur lezen

      Lionel Trilling (1905 - 1975) wanted very much to be a novelist. His short stories appeared in "The Menorah Journal" and "Partisan Review", and he published one novel in 1947, "The Middle of the Journey".

      The Journey Abandoned
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    • This volume devotes over 100 pages to William Blake, including The Book of Thel and the entire "Night the Ninth" from The Four Zoas, as well as excerpts from Milton and Jerusalem. It also includes poems and prose by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Byron.

      Romantic Poetry and Prose
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    • The America of John Dos Passos -- Hemingway and his critics -- T.S. Eliot's politics -- The immortality ode -- Kipling -- Reality in America -- Art and neurosis -- Manners, morals, and the novel -- The Kinsey report -- Huckleberry Finn -- The Princess Casamassima -- Wordsworth and the Rabbis -- William Dean Howells and the roots of modern taste -- The poet as hero: Keats in his letters -- George Orwell and the politics of truth -- The situation of the American intellectual at the present time -- Mansfield Park -- Isaac Babel -- The morality of inertia -- "That smile of Parmenides made me think"--The last lover -- A speech on Robert Frost: a cultural episode -- On the teaching of modern literature -- The Leavis-Snow controversy -- The fate of pleasure -- James Joyce in his letters -- Mind in the modern world -- Art, will, and necessity -- Why we read Jane Austen.

      The Moral Obligation To Be Intelligent
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