Lionel Trilling The Work of Liberation |
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| Author:
| O'Hara, Daniel |
| Series title: | Wisconsin Project on American Writers Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-299-11314-8 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1988 |
| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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Daniel T. O'Hara reads the career of Trilling as a single, completely conmprehensive work of self-fashioning. The intention of such work, says O'Hara, from the beginning and throughout Trilling's intelectual life, was to create a self that, when confronted with the great achievement of another mind, was capable of imaginative sympathy and not solely resentful critique. In order to reach that goal, however, Trilling had to adopt on e of the conventional masks available to the...
More DescriptionDaniel T. O'Hara reads the career of Trilling as a single, completely conmprehensive work of self-fashioning. The intention of such work, says O'Hara, from the beginning and throughout Trilling's intelectual life, was to create a self that, when confronted with the great achievement of another mind, was capable of imaginative sympathy and not solely resentful critique. In order to reach that goal, however, Trilling had to adopt on e of the conventional masks available to the intellectual in modern culture and adapt it to his needs and to those of his "liberal" time.