THE SENSE OF THE PAST Lionel Trilling.

It is hard to recall now the enormous prestige of Lionel Trilling as a literary and social critic during the postwar years. The Liberal Imagination (1950), his first collection of essays, is said to have sold more than 70,000 hardback copies.

The liveliest controversy surrounding Lionel Trilling since his death centers on whether or how far he shifted his political thinking from an early liberalism to a conservatism (or.

Lionel Trilling, American literary critic and teacher whose criticism was informed by psychological, sociological, and philosophical methods and insights. Educated at Columbia University (M.A., 1926; Ph.D., 1938), Trilling taught briefly at the University of Wisconsin and at Hunter College in New.

Scribner's: 358 pp The Sense of the Past is an unfinished novel by the American author Henry James that was published in 1917, a year after James' death. The novel is at once an eerie account of time travel and a bittersweet comedy of manners.

LIONEL TRILLING’S THE SENSE OF THE PAST Abstract: Trilling writes about the relationship In his essay 'The Sense of the Past', between German romanticism and the rise of Nazism: Logic is intended to serve the humanity: the belief that ideas generate events, that they have an autonomous existence, and that they can seize upon the minds of some men and control their actions independently of.

In Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), literary critic and poet Adam Kirsch presents us with a collection of 270 letters spanning the period from 1924 to 1975, the year of literary critic Lionel Trilling’s death at the age of 70.

Also by Lionel Trilling. ESSA YS. THE OPPOSING SELF A GATHERING OF FUGITIVES THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION. BIOGRAPHY. MATTHEW ARNOLD. E. M. FORSTER. NOVEL THE MIDDLE OF THE JOURNEY. Edited by Lionel Trilling. THE PORTABLE MATTHEW ARNOLD SELECTED LETTERS OF JOHN KEATS. EYOND CULTURE. Essays on Literature and Learning. LIONEL TRILLING.

THE STATE OF LETTERS THE CRITICS WHO MADE US LIONEL TRILLING AND THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION MORRIS DICKSTEIN When it was first published in April 1950, The Liberal Imagination constituted far more than a collection of Lionel Trilling's best literary essays of the previous decade. It was one of the subtlest attempts to find.

Lionel Trilling is a professor at Columbia University and the author of Matthew Arnold, The Liberal Imagination, The Opposing Self and other influential critical work. His essay on Fitzgerald is from The Liberal Imagination.The Liberal Imagination.

BEYOND CULTURE: Essays On Literature And Learning User Review - Kirkus. Throughout most of the essays collected here, Professor Trilling stresses three interlaced themes: the subversive intent of modern literature; its growing accomodation within the culture at large; and.

The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling's essays examine the promiseand limitsof liberalism, challenging the complacency.

The essay on The Kinsey Report, which certainly contributed to the surprise best-sellerdom of this uncompromisingly highbrow book, has some of Trilling's funniest remarks, and shows that with a little common sense, an intelligent layman can prick holes in the methodology of 'social science,' and that literary criticism need not feel subservient to anyone in a lab coat.