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From: D. H. Lawrence Review[(essay date Summer 1998) In the following essay, Balbert argues against Trilling's interpretation of D. H. Lawrence's Mr Noon.] "Is not the marriage bed a fiery battlefield as well as a perfect communion, both...
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From: Raritan[(review date fall 2000) In the following review, Phillips asserts that Ravelstein is not a biography, but rather "a fiction about biography."] In Diana Trilling's memoir The Beginning of the Journey she tells a story...
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From: New Republic[(review date 28 October 1978) In the following review, Atlas finds in Trilling's collection of her 1940s book reviews intimations of her later essayist's voice, but overall questions the purpose of publishing the...
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From: Saturday Review[(interview date 28 May 1977) In the following interview, Trilling discusses her disappointment in the intellectual community of the 1970s.] Since the recent death of her husband, Lionel, Diana Trilling has continued...
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From: Commonweal[In the following essay, Scott reviews Reviewing the Forties.] If one is of a sufficient age, to read the pieces that Diana Trilling has collected from her work as chief fiction reviewer for The Nation in the 1940s is...
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From: Commonweal[(review date 28 September 1979) In the following review, Scott compares Trilling's Reviewing the Forties with Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader for its "quiet pleasure."] If one is of a sufficient age, to read the...
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From: The Nation[(review date 18 June 1977) In the following review, Radosh finds Trilling's interpretations of events in the 1960s in We Must March My Darlings shallow and simplistic.] Our cultural history continues to be packaged by...
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From: The Nation[In the following review, Capouya praises Trilling's essays as the work of a brilliant literary critic.] Diana Trilling's column, “Fiction in Review,” appeared in this journal from 1942 to 1949. Near the end of that...
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From: Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date summer 1987) In the following essay, Dixon discusses how Wharton's use of "contrasting angles of vision" as a literary technique reflects her ideological perspective concerning the role of the individual...
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From: New Essays on The Catcher in the Rye[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Shaw offers a psychoanalytic interpretation of Holden's social observations and mental state in The Catcher in the Rye, placing his actions and emotions in the context of "the...
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From: The Spectator[In the following essay, Masters reviews Mrs. Harris .] Until 10 March, 1980, Mrs Harris was the unknown headmistress of a posh but equally unknown gírls' school in Virginia. Late that evening she shot and killed her...
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From: New Criterion[(review date March 1999) In the following review, Rollyson commends Podhoretz's provoking remembrances in Ex-Friends: Falling out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and...
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From: Times Literary Supplement[(review date 21 August 1981) In the following favorable review, Furbank traces a connection between the stories in Of This Time, Of That Place and Trilling's critical work and identifies growing up as a central theme in...
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From: Commonweal[(review date 12 February 1982) In the following review, Maloff faults what he considers Trilling's psychoanalytic misreading of the Scarsdale murder, finding that her interpretation of the case is closer to pulp fiction...
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From: New Leader[(review date 14 December 1998) In the following review, Klein depicts Ex-Friends: Falling out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer as an unoriginal...
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From: American Spectator[(review date February 1994) In the following review, Lynn focuses on Trilling's portrayal of her husband, Lionel, in The Beginning of the Journey.] The New York intellectuals of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s were...
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From: Atlantic Monthly[(review date November, 1993) In the following review, Rose finds The Beginning of the Journey to be a powerful, if at times unsettling, examination of self, marriage, and the intellectual circle.] A friend who reached...
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From: New Yorker[(interview date 13 September 1993) In the following interview, Trilling and Harris discuss Trilling's life and career.] It is the fate of notable literary figures to be relegated for safekeeping to a pathetically...
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From: The New York Times Book Review[In the following review, Hulbert discusses The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling, by Diana Trilling.] Curious about the home of the eminent New York intellectual couple, an admirer of...
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From: Carolyn G. Heilbrun: Feminist in a Tenured Position[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Kress considers the role Lionel Trilling played in Heilbrun's education and career, describing him as her unwitting, and therefore unwilling, mentor.] This idea of a conceived...