Sincerity and Authenticity by Lionel Trilling
Trilling is concerned with the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to ones self, came to occupy a place of supreme importance in the moral lifeand the further shift which finds that place now usurped by the darker and still more strenuous modern ideal of authenticity.
A beautifully written book, its tone admirably judged and perfectly sustained… It is wide, fastidious, and deeply thoughtful in its range of reference…Temperate, controlled and delicately scrupulous, it is a tribute if ever there was one to the ‘honest consciousness’ * Times Literary Supplement *
Sincerity and Authenticity is not only about literature but is a literary performance itself. From page to page, Trilling expresses and articulates complex movements of thought and feeling through his modulated style, the dialectical structure and rhythm of his sentences and paragraphs. In this book, as in others, he writes to advance an argument and to resist and revise it—and, in the process, to trouble and complicate our responses as readers. -- William E. Cain * Society *
Sincerity and Authenticity is not only about literature but is a literary performance itself. From page to page, Trilling expresses and articulates complex movements of thought and feeling through his modulated style, the dialectical structure and rhythm of his sentences and paragraphs. In this book, as in others, he writes to advance an argument and to resist and revise it—and, in the process, to trouble and complicate our responses as readers. -- William E. Cain * Society *
Lionel Trilling (1905–1975) was a literary critic, essayist, and author of more than ten books, including The Liberal Imagination and Beyond Culture. A board member and a regular contributor to both the Kenyon Review and Partisan Review, he was George Edward Woodberry Professor of Literature and Criticism at Columbia University, where his students included Allen Ginsberg, John Hollander, and Norman Podhoretz.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674808614 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674808614 |
| Title | Sincerity and Authenticity |
| Author | Lionel Trilling |
| Series | The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1973-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
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