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Lionel Trilling
Born
Lionel Mordechai Trilling

(1905-07-04)July 4, 1905
New York City, US
DiedNovember 5, 1975(1975-11-05) (aged 70)
New York City, US
Alma materColumbia University
Occupation(s)Literary critic, professor
Years active1931–1975
EmployerColumbia University
Known forLiterary criticism
Notable workThe Liberal Imagination (1950)
Spouse
Diana Trilling
(m. 1929)
ChildrenJames Trilling
RelativesBilly Cross (nephew)
WebsiteOfficial website

Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher. He was one of the leading U.S. critics of the 20th century who analyzed the contemporary cultural, social, and political implications of literature. With his wife Diana Trilling (née Rubin), whom he married in 1929, he was a member of the New York Intellectuals and contributor to the Partisan Review.

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either gay or bisexual surrogates. As early as 1945, critics such as Lionel Trilling noted that characters in The Great Gatsby, such as Jordan Baker, were...

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Lolita

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still given to us in glimpses." One of the novel's early champions, Lionel Trilling, warned in 1958 of the moral difficulty in interpreting a book with...

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Where Angels Fear to Tread

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losing in force and originality. An experiment might be worth trying." Lionel Trilling wrote, "Forster's first novel appeared in 1905. The author was 26,...

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Jacques Barzun

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discipline of cultural history. For years, he and literary critic Lionel Trilling conducted Columbia's famous Great Books course. He was elected Fellow...

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Fontana Modern Masters

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1958 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Liberalism in the United States

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liberal ideology was so intellectually dominant that the literary critic Lionel Trilling wrote that "liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual...

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psychoanalyst Clara Thompson – psychoanalyst Mária Török – psychoanalyst Lionel Trilling Frances Tustin – psychoanalyst Vamık Volkan – psychiatrist Donald Winnicott...

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Comprised of

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wholly comprised of the instinctual drives, and the conscious ego." Lionel Trilling, 1972 "The book is comprised of a few of the innumerable letters, statements...

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Paula Fox

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calling it a "brilliant performance" and "quite devastating" while Lionel Trilling described it as "a reserved and beautifully realized novel". By 1992...

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