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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 129–160.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Katie Fitzpatrick This article reads Lionel Trilling’s 1947 novel, The Middle of the Journey , through postwar controversies about the relationship between law and conscience. The 1945–46 Nuremberg Trials divided American liberals, who disputed whether fascism was best combated by fidelity...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 129–165.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Jeff Solomon m
Capote and the Trillings:
Homophobia and Literary Culture
at Midcentury
Jeff Solomon
I n a reminiscence published in George Plimpton’s oral history of Tru
man Capote, Diana Trilling recounts her and her husband Lionel’s first
meeting with Capote, almost...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 March 2018
... private project of self-cultivation. The article critically assesses this position, traces its implications in Wharton’s fiction and nonfiction, and briefly reviews its place within the broader context of liberal thought from Kant, through Matthew Arnold, to Lionel Trilling. Copyright © 2018 Hofstra...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): vi–viii.
Published: 01 June 2008
... with a fresh eye at the object under
consideration and not to get up from the desk until a genuinely
fresh view of that object has coalesced and found its proper expres
sion. As a critic, you have not done your job unless what you say
is interesting. “Capote and the Trillings: Homophobia...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (4): 518–529.
Published: 01 December 2007
... and disposed to struggle with unfamiliar, even offensive or off-
putting works of art. And of course the audience for modernist art grew
as more and more people wished to think themselves advanced and open
to the shock of the new.
In 1961 Lionel Trilling published “On the Teaching of Modern...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 296–332.
Published: 01 June 2012
... in achieving so-
cial equality in a civilized society. In linking the fate of democracy with
that of aesthetics, the poem anticipates that fusion of progressive politics
and literary modernism evoked by Lionel Trilling’s phrase “the liberal
imagination.” In the preface to his book of that title...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 239–266.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the essentialist discourse to which the novel’s critics have objected. The way production is yoked to reproduction would indeed seem to assume the sexed division between intellectual and biological creativity and, further, to give tribute to what Trilling called “the waning cult of Woman” ([1966] 1979, 22...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 461–472.
Published: 01 December 2019
... codified and institutionalized (and what is lost and gained through this process) is at once the story of modernism itself, and the story of the field of modernist studies, which has struggled since at least the era of Lionel Trilling with the problem of what it means to canonize rebellion. But not only...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (1-2): 23–42.
Published: 01 March 2019
... foreign policy critique, of direct political anti-imperial analysis, would have to wait for the dawn of the postsocialist period. Pease makes this same point by discussing how Lionel Trilling castigated Matthiessen for his implicit endorsement of Theodore Dreiser in 1946—after he had just joined...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 26–59.
Published: 01 March 2012
... experience to Passage prompted Forster’s
friend Roger Fry to say that although the writing was beautiful he wished
Forster “weren’t a mystic, or that he would keep his mysticism out of his
books” (qtd. in Trilling 44). Though it didn’t quite put him in for the
kind of contempt Woolf expressed for T...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 269–276.
Published: 01 June 2010
... manners, these novels
represented precisely the ethos of liberal humanism and cultural centrism
denounced by intellectuals such as Diana Trilling.
Hutner also contests the academic critical story of the 1950s as the
period of fiction’s supposed loss of its reading public. Intellectuals...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 217–246.
Published: 01 June 2008
... such as of race, class, and
gender.
In the first book-length scholarly study of Forster’s work, Lionel
Trilling in 1943 paved the way for a dismissive reading of these stories as
at best precursors to the novels: “The Greek myths made too deep an im
pression on Forster” (38). O f the 12...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 180–198.
Published: 01 June 2011
..., expressing merely the hope that positive affects might
become interesting again.
4. For work on “only connect’s” relationship to Forster’s alleged liberal humanism,
see Jameson, Stone, Trilling, Bradbury, Levenson, and White. Although I tend to
regard “liberal” and “humanist” as loaded labels...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 328–345.
Published: 01 September 2000
... the years; following Trilling’s influential 1943 study, represen
tative examples include virtually every essay in the anthology edited by Bradbury.
For more recent reconsiderations of liberalism see Armstrong, who highlights
the importance of architecture and horizontal spatial movement in the novel...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (3): 328–359.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., one articulated by Lionel Trilling. Drawing on Dostoevsky’s Notes
from Underground,Trifling suggests that modern literature renounces what
Wordsworth and Keats celebrated as everyday joy or pleasure. Modern man,
represented by Dostoevsky’s miserable clerk, hates what Trilling refers...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Millett to condemn Miller’s sex scenes as a “gray abstraction of ‘organ grinding’” (1970, 300), characters becoming reduced to sets of organs, combined and recombined with other sets. 11 Here obscenity directly opposes the humanist aesthetics of midcentury critics. While Lionel Trilling lobbied...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 150–170.
Published: 01 June 2000
... not to have closure or to limit its finalizing effects; the audience can
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anticipate continuation as well as conclusion. Also important for Lolita, how
ever, is the pleasure of the text itself. When Trilling argues that the reader
begins to sympathize...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 419–447.
Published: 01 December 2008
... 1938, the publication of The 42nd Parallel, Î919, and The Big Money
as a single novel provoked a flood of essays debating how John Dos Pas-
sos’s U.S.A. related socially, aesthetically, and politically to the U.S.A.1
While assessments ranged from Lionel Trilling’s ambivalent judgment...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 443–473.
Published: 01 December 2006
..., desperate energy. In a 1963 essay called “The
Fate of Pleasure,” Lionel Trilling contends that “at some point in modern his
tory, the principle of pleasure came to be regarded with ambivalence” (434),
which develops fully into a “repudiation of pleasure” (439) with modernists,
who regard...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (2): 182–211.
Published: 01 June 2007
... and Lionel Trilling were echoed by a later genera
tion of critics. Meanwhile, as Cather responded to such criticism with
a strident defense of art as an apolitical pursuit (“Escapism,” 1936), this
only seemed to give further credence to the image of her as a recalcitrant
romantic who refused...
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