The Critic’s Role
February 17, 2015
Christopher Beha, How Much Damage Can It Do?, James Wood, Llionel Trilling, the role of the literary critic0 Comment
A recent essay by Christopher Beha in Harper’s compares the literary criticism of Lionel Trilling (1905-75), who reigned in the mid-twentieth century, with that of contemporary critic, James Wood. (1965 -) Trilling judges a work based upon its the effect on the reader. Wood, h
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