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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Trilling"”.
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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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Patterns and processes of speciation in North American chorus frogs (Pseudacris)
… phylogeography of a clade within Pseudacris, the trilling chorus frogs. I find support for at least nine species and delineate their geographic distributions. In chapter 3, I test geological and climatic hypotheses proposed to drive speciation in North American flora and fauna. By estimating …
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Class work: New York intellectual labor and the creation of postmodern American fiction, 1932-1962
… 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 arrival …
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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 ironic …
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The employment of ornamentation in present day trombone performance of transcriptions of Baroque literature
… 3 is an essay dealing with the art of trilling on the trombone. The overtone series is explained in regard to the formation of thirds, and to the proper notation necessary to adequately perform trills of major and minor thirds. A section concerning the use of the "F" attachment for …
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The major critical evaluations of the religious writings of Matthew Arnold, 1888-1965.
… the publication of his letters to A. H. Clough. Trilling's Matthew Arnold (1939) began a period of growing understanding (1939-1965). During this period a twofold awareness developed: Arnold's religious writings are integral to his total contribution, and they have continuing value for the …
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Prison Imagry in Little Dorrit
… "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 pertinent …
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Sacred Categories: Saul Bellow, Friendship, and the Novel
… 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’. Such …