Why Trilling matters [electronic resource] / Adam Kirsch.
2011
PS3539.R56 Z84 2011eb
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Title
Why Trilling matters [electronic resource] / Adam Kirsch.
Author
Kirsch, Adam, 1976-
ISBN
9780300178289 (electronic book)
9780300152692
9780300152692
Publication Details
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (185 p.) : ill.
Call Number
PS3539.R56 Z84 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
818/.5209
Summary
"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 Trilling primarily as a writer and thinker, Kirsch demonstrates how Trilling's original and moving work continues to provide an inspiring example of a mind creating itself through its encounters with texts. Why Trilling Matters introduces all of Trilling's major writings and situates him in the intellectual landscape of his century, from Communism in the 1930s to neoconservatism in the 1970s. But Kirsch goes deeper, addressing today's concerns about the decline of literature, reading, and even the book itself, and finds that Trilling has more to teach us now than ever before. As Kirsch writes, "Trilling's essays are not exactly literary criticism" but, like all literature, "ends in themselves.""-- $c Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Does literature matter?
"A professor and a man and a writer"
Varieties of liberal imagination
Isaac Babel and the rabbis
A syllabus of terrors
"Howl" and the visionary gleam
The affirming self
The reader as hero.
"A professor and a man and a writer"
Varieties of liberal imagination
Isaac Babel and the rabbis
A syllabus of terrors
"Howl" and the visionary gleam
The affirming self
The reader as hero.