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Há 4 dias · This formalist approach was pursued by later critics, notably Lionel Trilling, Charles Feidelson Jr., Richard Chase, and Richard Poirier, who maintained that writers like Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Melville achieved stylistic transcendence or philosophical depth in a culture that offered few literary materials. 2 This view of the major writers as alienated rebels in an arid cultural ...
Há 2 dias · In this, Liberalism Against Itself functions as a kind of liberal jeremiad, a declension narrative decrying and denouncing the betrayal of the liberal faith by Cold War liberals and calling all liberals back to the “true” liberalism. There is nothing more American than the jeremiad form; to identify the form is not to dismiss the argument ...
Há 4 dias · In the mid-20th century, historians like Richard Hofstadter and Lionel Trilling characterized conservative thought in a rather dismissive manner. Hofstadter's concept of the ' Paranoid Style ' and Trilling's description of conservative ideas as 'irritable mental gestures' reflected a broader academic skepticism towards conservatism.
Há 1 dia · As early as 1945, critics such as Lionel Trilling noted that characters in The Great Gatsby, such as Jordan Baker, were implied to be "vaguely homosexual", and, in 1960, writer Otto Friedrich commented upon the ease of examining the thwarted relations depicted in Fitzgerald's fiction through a queer lens.
Há 2 dias · Joel J Miller. May 29, 2024. In his famed essay “Unpacking My Library,” critic Walter Benjamin mentions the chaos that prevails once the boxes are open, before “the mild boredom of order” sets in. Anyone who’s set up an old library in a new space understands the point: The rediscoveries, the possibilities—it’s all electric and ...
Há 3 dias · Sebald in Context Part IV. by Terry on May 28, 2024. This is the fourth and final post on W.G. Sebald in Context, an anthology of critical essays which came out last September from Cambridge University Press. It contains thirty-eight essays on Sebald by specialists from across Europe, Great Britain, the Middle East, and the United States.
Há 5 dias · Conservatives today probably wouldn’t like it much if we had hit pause in the post-WWII era on historical conceptions of American conservatism—a time when historical thinking about conservatives was dominated by Richard Hofstadter’s “Paranoid Style” and Lionel Trilling’s view of conservative thought as “irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas.”
