“NOVEL OR NOTHING”: LIONEL TRILLING I TEORIJA ROMANA
“NOVEL OR NOTHING”: LIONEL TRILLING AND THE THEORY OF THE NOVEL

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with literary critic Lionel Trilling and his theory of the novel. After indicating a systematic character of Trilling’s opinions in the concerned area, two continuous features in the reception of his essayist opus are critically examined: insistance on its non-theoretical nature, and accommodation of its interpretative vision to the American context. The concluding part of the paper brings a survey of the reception of Trilling’s texts in Yugoslavia, as well as of its continuous neglect by the journal Umjetnost riječi.

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