James Baldwin, Lionel Trilling, American Studies, and the Freudian Tragic by Jay Garcia

Subjects: “…James Baldwin, Lionel Trilling, Freud, American Studies, modernism…”
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The tragedy of being sincere: José María Arguedas, authenticity and sincerity by Juan David Gómez González

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Shaping the Adversary Culture by Richard H. Gaskins

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La tragedia de ser sincero: José María Arguedas, franqueza y sinceridad by Juan David Gómez González

“…Realizando un análisis crítico de la vida y obra literaria de Arguedas a través de los conceptos de "sinceridad" y "autenticidad" de Lionel Trilling se concluye que la sinceridad innata de Arguedas en realidad pudo haber sido a la vez más compleja, y más productiva, que la autenticidad de sus compañeros literarios y académicos.…”
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The problem of “culture” in the process of intercultural understanding by Andreana Marchi, E. Doyle McCarthy

“…Robbins and Clifford Geertz, a literary critic, Lionel Trilling, and C. S. Lewis, a famous writer of both fiction and non-fiction. …”
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Essay on authenticity by Mariana Lins Costa

“…From the understanding, taken from Bruce Ward, that in our time a certain "culture of authenticity" prevails, the purpose of this essay is to reflect, in discussion with Lionel Trilling and Charles Taylor, on the meaning of authenticity for the contemporaries human interiority and way of life. …”
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Preface to FORUM Issue 12: Authenticity by Tim Milnes

“…Such metaphysical earnestness is apt to cause embarrassment today, which is perhaps why commentators not bent on dismantling the notion of the authentic have approached it with circumspection. Among these, Lionel Trilling, whose 1971 study Sincerity and Authenticity remains essential reading, worries that ‘authenticity,’ like ‘irony’ and ‘love,’ is ‘one of those words [...] which are best not talked about if they are to retain any force of meaning [...]’ (120). …”
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Seeming sincere : ironic implications on sincerity and authenticity in David Foster Wallace's "host" and the broom of the system by Tang, Aaron Wei Yao

“…But what does writing sincerely entail? Drawing on Lionel Trilling's book on sincerity and authenticity, where he argues that the two are separate moral positions with attendant models of the self, this essay will explore how Wallace's writing conforms to Trilling's idea of sincerity in emphasizing engagement on a public level. …”
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Preface to FORUM Issue 12: Authenticity by Tim Milnes

“…Such metaphysical earnestness is apt to cause embarrassment today, which is perhaps why commentators not bent on dismantling the notion of the authentic have approached it with circumspection. Among these, Lionel Trilling, whose 1971 study Sincerity and Authenticity remains essential reading, worries that ‘authenticity,’ like ‘irony’ and ‘love,’ is ‘one of those words [...] which are best not talked about if they are to retain any force of meaning [...]’ (120). …”
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The Columbia Social Essayists by Albert J. Bergesen

“…Wright Mills, Daniel Bell, Lionel Trilling, Richard Hofstadter and Meyer Schapiro.…”
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Making good on Henry James by Maher, D

“…This thesis therefore begins by considering how Lionel Trilling, Isaiah Berlin, and Judith Shklar, three Cold-War Liberals widely believed to have deaccessioned perfectionism from the liberal tradition and who heavily influenced these philosophers, try to revise what perfectionism entails as they come to read James. …”

Kulturkämpfe neoconservadora by Andrew Hartman, Cayo Honorato

“…Em sua reação à Nova Esquerda, em sua defesa vigorosa das instituições estadunidenses tradicionais e ataque total aos intelectuais que, nas palavras de Lionel Trilling, compunham uma "cultura adversária", os neoconservadores ajudaram a redigir os próprios termos das guerras culturais.…”
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A Review of Colin Rowe's Contextualism Through Twenty-first Century Cities by Ebru Bingol

“…With Rowe, context received a specific meaning with an ideological foundation that included inspiration from the Townscape vision of pluralist democracy, Karl Popper's criticism of reductionist science and society and Lionel Trilling's commentary on contradiction and social dialectics, the compositional form of Gestalt psychology and the cubist influence of Henry-Russell Hitchcock, the historical analysis of Rudolf Wittkower and the formal comparisonanalysis of Heinrich Wölfflin. …”
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