About this title: A literary and critical giant during his life, Lionel Trilling slid somewhat out of favor after his death, when literary criticism became hostile to Trilling's unclassifiable combination of a tight focus on the texts at hand with a broad view of culture, psychology, and politics. This book brings some of his best work back into print for the first time since his death, and contains essays on Austen, Twain, Hemingway, Wordsworth, Keats, Eliot, and Frost. It also includes "Art and Neurosis" and the preface to Trilling's revered book, THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 2001-10-17
ISBN-13:9780374527990ISBN:0374527997
Description: Like New. First paperback edition of new-looking 2001 softcover. All clean crisp text pages with a nice secure binding. Daily shipping. read more
Edition: (1st thus)
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Farrar Strauss, NY
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780374527990ISBN:0374527997
Description: VERY GOOD+ Tight, bright, clean, slight curl. 572 pages "meditations on questions of morality, will, freedom, art and politics, rendered with a measurable elegance of prose..." read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 2001-10-17
ISBN-13:9780374527990ISBN:0374527997
Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
Description: Very good. Twenty-nine essays compose this rich overview of Trilling's achievements-including justly celebrated masterpieces on Mansfield Park and on Why We Read Jane Austen, on Twain, DosPassos, Hemingway, Isaac Babel, Keats, Wordsworth, Eliot, Frost, on. read more
Description: New. New Book, Never Read. Trade Paperback book. We bought this book along with about 200 others from our local bookstore. Though the book is new, it's been handled by customers and has a bit of shelfwear, so it's not quite up to bookstore quality, that's why we got the deal on this lot and that's why we can sell this never read book so inexpensively. Spine is tight and perfect, pages are fresh and clean. read more
"Trilling was one of the first critics I read, far more years ago now than I imagined I might live. He is still magnificent--thoughtful, incisive, and, in an age in which clarity seems outmoded, lucid while willing to explore ideas wherever they might lead and to shine a light on every nuance. Humanism may be a dirty word in many circles now; read Trilling to see why it should not be so considered."
"I cannot recommend this too highly. Trilling's eminence as a critic continues to amaze me. There's a grandeur and a seriousness in every one of these essays. So many who presume to treat a particular novel, story or poem as a specimen of history, of sociology, of philosophy, of "the politics of culture" etc. too often end up using the works under consideration as pretexts for extra-literary blather, as indicted representatives of some to-be-chastened old regime, as excuses for the critic to grind their own, often dull, socio-political axe. The Anglo-American New Critics and the Russo-Czech Formalists have always impressed me with their tasteful abstention. But Trilling shows that with a scrupulous sense of what's relevant to the discussion and an unresentful respect for the work he's approaching, the hard-to-pull-off attempt to show literature's connectedness can yield rich insight. Trilling's strength, his difference, is that the work is always enough; he talks about politics and philosophy and social history but the privileged ground of the discussion is always the literary work. He can mostly ignore technical questions of style and form without appearing to devalue the work, because even if Keats and Austen and James aren't preeminently master stylists to him, they are something just as impressive, moral philosophers, bearers of luminous comment. His concentration on authors as thinkers actually gives one a more exalted sense of the literary work than you get from the New Critics. But generalizing about the most appropriate critical method is a crazy-making waste of time: Trilling exemplifies Eliot's remark that there is really no best qualification beyond being very intelligent."
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