Lionel Trilling
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Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, author, and teacher. With wife Diana Trilling, he was a member of the New York Intellectuals and contributor to the Partisan Review. Although he did not establish a school of literary criticism, he is one of the leading U.S. critics of the twentieth century who traced the contemporary cultural, social, and political implications of literature. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he has been a subject of continued interest.
He is known for such essay collections as Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning.
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Works by Trilling
Fiction
- The Middle of the Journey (1947)
- Of This Time, of That Place and Other Stories (1979, published posthumously)
- The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel (2008) (published posthumously, edited by Geraldine Murphy)
Non-Fiction and Essays
- Matthew Arnold (1939)
- E. M. Forster: A Study (1943)
- The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society (1950)
- The Opposing Self: Nine Essays in Criticism (1955)
- Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture (1955)
- A Gathering of Fugitives (1956)
- Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning (1965)
- Sincerity and Authenticity (1972), a collection of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures given at Harvard in 1969
- Mind in the Modern World: The 1972 Thomas Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities (1973)
- The Last Decade: Essays and Reviews, 1965-75 (1979, published posthumously)
- Speaking of Literature and Society (1980, published posthumously)
- The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays - Edited by Leon Wieseltier (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2001; Northwestern University Press, 2008, published posthumously)
Prefaces, Afterwards, and Commentaries
- Preface to Isaac Babel's Collected Stories (Penguin) edition (1957)
- The Unpossessed, by Tess Slesinger (for 1965 reprint of 1934 novel) - afterword by Trilling
- Preface and commentaries to The Experience of Literature (1967)
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