Lionel Trilling's Views On Literary Reality

Lionel Trilling is one of the representative figures of intellectuals in New York,the United States.He advocates reflecting on culture,society and life through literary criticism,guiding the public to look directly at the real level of society and humanity from an intellectual level,and is known as For "the conscience of American society." He inherited the tradition of new humanism,based the truth of literature on the ethical criticism of society and life,and showed unique thinking about the truth of literature in literary criticism,including that literature should present the richness and danger of morality and discuss the diversity of morality in different cultural traditions,etc;from the ethical level,he pays attention to details,paradoxes,intonation and other style elements,and analyzes literary texts to reveal the customs and will under the social appearance,and pays attention to the spiritual emptiness of people in social existence,To explore the opposition between self-will and cultural will,that is,the confrontation between the primitive,introverted,natural,savage self and the responsible,role,cultural,and orderly self.Trilling is different from structuralism's technical analysis of styles and paradigms.He uses literary criticism to talk to the public,guiding people to see the hidden and true aspects of human nature and society,and at the same time evokes the ancient Heber in literature.Laihe England's spiritual tradition seeks to retrieve spiritual freedom and the reality of existence for the modern American society that has gradually ossified under the industrial prosperity and capital expansion.