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January 28, 2019
in Art & Architecture, History

Q&A with Denise Murrell, author of Posing Modernity

January 28, 2019
in Art & Architecture, History

Yale University Press: Posing Modernity began as a term paper that became a dissertation and has now become both an exhibition and a book. What changes or shifts in focus have you encountered since you started the project? Denise Murrell: The main change was to shape the initially academic project

November 7, 2011
in American History, History, Literature, Social Science

Literature Matters; Lionel Trilling Matters

November 7, 2011
in American History, History, Literature, Social Science

In Why Trilling Matters, from Yale University Press’s Why X Matters Series, Adam Kirsch makes a compelling argument for why mid-century American literary critic Lionel Trilling might matter thirty-six years after his death. Yet the importance of a literary critic rests on the more fundamental question of the importance of