Prefaces to The Experience of Literature, Volumes 1-4

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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979 - Literary Criticism - 302 pages
The fifty-two critical commentaries Trilling wrote to accompany each selection in his text book anthology, The Experience of Literature. This book is a wonderful journey through literary history, from the Greek dramatists to present day. Foreword by William Jovanovich. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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SOPHOCLES Oedipus Rex
3
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Tragedy of King Lear
9
HENRIK IBSEN The Wild Duck
22
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About the author (1979)

Trilling has exerted a wide influence upon literature and criticism: as university professor at Columbia, where he taught English literature, and in his long association with Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, and the Kenyon School of English (now the School of Letters, Indiana University). He considered himself a true "liberal"---having a "vision of a general enlargement of [individual] freedom and rational direction in human life. Yet even liberalism, Trilling insisted, was simply one of several ways of organizing the complexity of life; however, it can reveal "variousness and possibility" just as literature, its subject, does. Trilling was viewed as a genteel moralist, but never would settle for mere simplification in literary analysis even if it led to understanding.

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TitlePrefaces to The Experience of Literature, Volumes 1-4
Prefaces to The Experience of Literature, Lionel Trilling
Works, Lionel Trilling
Works. 1977, Lionel Trilling
AuthorLionel Trilling
PublisherHarcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedApr 1, 2008
ISBN0151739153, 9780151739158
Length302 pages
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