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The moral obligation to be intelligent : selected essays
- Title
- The moral obligation to be intelligent : selected essays / Lionel Trilling ; edited and with an introduction by Leon Wieseltier.
- Author
- Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975.
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2000.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Wieseltier, Leon.
- Description
- xvii, 572 p.; 24 cm.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 557-559) and index.
- Contents
- The America of John Dos Passos -- Hemingway and his critics -- T.S. Eliot's politics -- The immortality of ode -- Kipling -- Reality in America -- Art and neurosis -- Manners, morals, and the novel -- The Kinsey report -- Huckleberry Finn -- The Princess Casamassima -- Wordsworth and the Rabbis -- William Dean Howells and the roots of modern taste -- The poet as hero: Keats in his letters -- George Orwell and the politics of truth -- The situation of the American intellectual at the present time -- Mansfield Park -- Isaac Babel -- The morality of inertia -- "That smile of Parmenides made me think" -- The last lover -- A speech on Robert Frost: a cultural episode -- On the teaching of modern literature -- The Leavis-Snow controversy -- The fate of pleasure -- James Joyce in his letters -- Mind in the modern world -- Art, will, and necessity -- Why we read Jane Austen.
- Call Number
- JFE 00-12841
- ISBN
- 0374257949 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99087875
- OCLC
- 43245935
- Author
- Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975.
- Title
- The moral obligation to be intelligent : selected essays / Lionel Trilling ; edited and with an introduction by Leon Wieseltier.
- Imprint
- New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2000.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 557-559) and index.
- Added Author
- Wieseltier, Leon.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 00-12841