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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Lionel Trilling"”.
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HENRY JAMES AND ROMANTIC REVISIONISM: THE QUEST FOR THE MAN OF IMAGINATION IN THE LATE WORK
… (e.g. Kenneth Burke, R.P. Blackmur, and Lionel Trilling) to challenge new instrumentalizing scholarly methodologies that aim to overcome the ironies of critical vision. I argue that James’s man of imagination not only presents a critical agency that profits from criticism’s penchant for …
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A Proper Secularism: Beyond Ideology in Bulgakov, Trilling, Updike and Pynchon
… Proper Secularism: Beyond Ideology in Bulgakov, Trilling, Updike and Pynchon,” explores the ways in which the literary imagination pushes beyond ideology, and points towards notions of the eternal, by attunement and fidelity to the material. In the terms of Rowan Williams, “if a proper secularism …
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Prison Imagry in Little Dorrit
… recognized "Dickens: The Two Scrooges" and Lionel Trilling's more recent study (1952) gives evidence of increase in genuine interest in Charles Dickens and his work and promise of more detailed scholarship. These publications, supplemented by letters of Dickens to Forster and by other …
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Class work: New York intellectual labor and the creation of postmodern American fiction, 1932-1962
… 40s, authors Tess Slesinger, Mary McCarthy, and Lionel Trilling sounded an increasingly shrill alarm over what they imagined was a pro-Soviet intellectual class of bureaucratic mental workers in America. I argue that while their class-conscious fictions laid foundations for postmodernism’s …
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Sacred Categories: Saul Bellow, Friendship, and the Novel
… Against a backdrop of critical appeals (from Lionel Trilling, Irving Howe, and others) to the novel’s dialectical workings, two of Bellow’s important mid-career works - *Herzog* (1964) and *Humboldt’s Gift* (1975) - allude to an aphorism from William Blake: ‘Opposition is true friendship’. …