- Title
- What Literature Can and Cannot Do: Lionel Trilling, Richard Rorty, and the Left
- Author/Creator
- Broke Clarke
- Publication Details
- Massachusetts Review, Vol.41(4), pp.523-539
- Annotation
- Examines Trilling s and Rorty s views on the function of literary criticism. Clarke comments on the political influence critics had on The Fifth Column and To Have and to Have Not, concluding that American critics inhibit artists full potential by imposing political barriers.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015132020503691
Journal article
What Literature Can and Cannot Do: Lionel Trilling, Richard Rorty, and the Left
Massachusetts Review, Vol.41(4), pp.523-539
2000
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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