Title
What Literature Can and Cannot Do: Lionel Trilling, Richard Rorty, and the Left
Document Type
Article
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.
Published in
Massachusetts Review
Volume
41
Issue
4
Date
2000
Pages
523-539
COinS
Citation
Clarke, Brock. “What Literature Can and Cannot Do: Lionel Trilling, Richard Rorty, and the Left.” Massachusetts Review 41, no. 4 (2000-2001): 523-39.