Why Trilling matters /
Kirsch, Adam,1976-
New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press,
c2011.
Does literature matter? -- "A professor and a man and a writer" -- Varieties of liberal imagination -- Isaac Babel and the rabbis -- A syllabus of terrors -- "Howl" and the visionary gleam -- The affirming self -- The reader as hero.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975
Criticism