莱昂内尔·特里林（Lionel Trilling，1905—1975），出生于美国纽约，就读于哥伦比亚大学，于1932年回校任教，在他长期的和非常杰出的职业生涯中作为一个文学评论家，他在校教英语系。他继承阿诺徳、利维斯以来的批评传统，侧重从社会历史、道德心理的角度评论文学和文化，被称为20世纪中期美国年青一代的思想导师，对当代批评影响甚大。在他的许多作品中，最有影响力的三本散文集：《自由想象》，《反对自我》，《超越文化》；讲座集《诚与真》。莱昂内尔·特里林与作家、评论家戴安娜·特里林结婚。

The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency ...(展开全部)

The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency ...(展开全部)

"In this book, the first collection of his prose works, he accounts in scintillating language for the peculiarly modern and sometimes deliquescent fervor that has prompted his poems. Few poets have written so characteristically about their own craft." --Perspective --U.S.A. "These are rich essays, simply constructed yet richly and elegantly written." -- Hayden Carruth, The Nati...(展开全部)

关于作者 詹姆斯·伍德（James Wood），1965年生，英国批评家、散文家、小说家，曾任《卫报》首席文学批评家、《新共和》资深编辑，现为《纽约客》专栏作家、哈佛大学文学教授，著有《破格》（1999）、《忤逆上帝之书》（2004）、《不负责任的自我》（2004）、《 小说机杼》（2009）、《私货》（2013）、《最接近生活的事物》（2015）。 关于译者 黄远帆，上海外国语大学比较文学和世界文学系文学硕士。译有《小说机杼》、《破格》、《每个爱情故事都是鬼故事：大卫·福斯特·华莱士传》等。

This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, and Don DeLillo, Wood relates their fiction to questions of re...(展开全部)

关于作者 詹姆斯·伍德（James Wood），1965年生，英国批评家、散文家、小说家，曾任《卫报》首席文学批评家、《新共和》资深编辑，现为《纽约客》专栏作家、哈佛大学文学教授，著有《破格》（1999）、《忤逆上帝之书》（2004）、《不负责任的自我》（2004）、《 小说机杼》（2009）、《私货》（2013）、《最接近生活的事物》（2015）。 关于译者 黄远帆，上海外国语大学比较文学和世界文学系文学硕士。译有《小说机杼》、《破格》、《每个爱情故事都是鬼故事：大卫·福斯特·华莱士传》等。

This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, and Don DeLillo, Wood relates their fiction to questions of re...(展开全部)

How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addre...(展开全部)

How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addre...(展开全部)