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Boyers examines the work of author and literary critic, Lionel Trilling, identifying a major theme of Trilling's writing style, criticism, and personal political stance as the avoidance of ideology. Boyers acknowledges this theme is central to Trilling's ability to describe an idea fully in all its complexity.
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"Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America's preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era. His was an age when literary criticism and ideas seemed to matter profoundly in the intellectual life of the country. In this eloquent book, Adam Kirsch shows that Trilling, far from being obsolete, is essential to understanding our current crisis of literary confidence--and to overcoming it. By reading...
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Lionel Trilling was a major figure on the American cultural scene from 1940 until his death in 1975. In this first book-length study of his entire career, Chace assesses all the critic's writing, from his first published essays and stories for the Menorah Journal in 1925 to his last major work, Sincerity and Authenticity. Chace concludes that Trilling had "elaborated a means to return discussions of literary works to the cultural roots and social...
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