His most famous collection of essays argues that literature combats the title leftist reduction of art to social ideology, by revealing the "variousness and possibility" of human activity.
One of this author's essay collections begins with reflections on a critic's complaint that he habitually uses the pronoun "we" to refer to different groups of people. An effort to explain why 150 students applied for his course on the title author merges into an analysis of Clifford Geertz's hermeneutics in his final, unfinished essay, "Why We Read Jane Austen". He argued against the claim that the title Wordsworth poem is "a dirge sung over departing powers" in his essay "The Immortality Ode". With Harold (*) Bloom, he co-edited the Romantic and Victorian volumes of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature. His most famous collection of essays argues that literature combats the title leftist reduction of art to social ideology, by revealing the "variousness and possibility" of human activity. For 10 points, name this Columbia University-based cultural critic, who wrote Beyond Culture and The Liberal Imagination.
One of this author's essay collections begins with reflections on a critic's complaint that he habitually uses the pronoun "we" to refer to different groups of people.
Lionel (Mordecai) Trilling