H-Net (East Lansing)
17 Décembre 2007
In 1961, the literary critic Lionel Trilling bemoaned the then-growing tendency within the academy to distill out of literature the "power of a work of art" by subjecting it to a deadening kind of "university study." He wrote, "Time has the effect of seeming to quiet the work of art, domesticating it and making it into a classic, which is often another way of saying ...
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