James Trilling
Biographic Data
| ID | 1374885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Trilling |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Trilling |
| SIGNATURE | TRILLING J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
East of Asia Minor
Review Article| August 01 2020 East of Asia Minor: Rome’s Hidden Frontier by Timothy Bruce Mitford Mitford, Timothy Bruce, East of Asia Minor: Rome’s Hidden Frontier, 2 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 1024 pp. James Trilling James Trilling Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (3): 431–432. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8521525 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linke…
Disenchantment
This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium "Peace by Other Means" rereads the works of J. R. R. Tolkien as a study of pyrrhic victory. It argues that the origin of Tolkien's cycle of tales is inseparable from his experience of World War I, which ended in anomie and widespread fear of the coercive power of modern society. The price of the victory over evil, in these tales, is disenchantment. Tolkien is the first author to imagine disencha…
Introduction
It is often argued that a shared culture, or at least shared cultural references or practices, can help to foster peace and prevent war. This essay examines in detail and criticizes one such argument, made by Patrick Leigh Fermor, in the context of his discussing an incident during World War II, when he and a captured German general found a form of agreement, a ground for peace between them, in their both knowing Horace's ode I.9 by heart in Lati…
Art and the Second World War
Book Review| April 01 2015 Art and the Second World War Bohm-Duchen, Monica, Art and the Second World War. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013), 288 pp. James Trilling James Trilling Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 342–343. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2872714 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James Trilling;…
Romantic Moderns
Book Review| August 01 2012 Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists, and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper Harris, Alexandra, Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists, and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2010), 320 pp. James Trilling James Trilling Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (3): 551–552. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X…
The Architecture of Happiness
Book Review| August 01 2009 The Architecture of Happiness Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness (New York: Pantheon, 2006), 280 pp. James Trilling James Trilling Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 516. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2009-046 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation James Trilling; The Architecture of Happines…
The Avant-Garde in Interwar England
Book Review| January 01 2003 The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground James Trilling James Trilling Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (1): 158–159. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-9-1-158 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James Trilling; The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernis…
Freedom and convention
A modernist's critique of postmodernism
Style and Spirituality in Late Antiquity
Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century edited by Kurt Weitzmann, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979, in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 767 pp., 692 ills, 16 colour pls, £25.10
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Style and Spirituality in Late Antiquity
Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century edited by Kurt Weitzmann, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979, in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 767 pp., 692 ills, 16 colour pls, £25.10
A modernist's critique of postmodernism
Freedom and convention
The Avant-Garde in Interwar England
Book Review| January 01 2003 The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground James Trilling James Trilling Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (1): 158–159. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-9-1-158 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James Trilling; The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernis…
The Architecture of Happiness
Book Review| August 01 2009 The Architecture of Happiness Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness (New York: Pantheon, 2006), 280 pp. James Trilling James Trilling Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 516. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2009-046 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation James Trilling; The Architecture of Happines…
Romantic Moderns
Book Review| August 01 2012 Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists, and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper Harris, Alexandra, Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists, and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2010), 320 pp. James Trilling James Trilling Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (3): 551–552. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X…
Art and the Second World War
Book Review| April 01 2015 Art and the Second World War Bohm-Duchen, Monica, Art and the Second World War. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013), 288 pp. James Trilling James Trilling Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 342–343. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2872714 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James Trilling;…
Disenchantment
This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium "Peace by Other Means" rereads the works of J. R. R. Tolkien as a study of pyrrhic victory. It argues that the origin of Tolkien's cycle of tales is inseparable from his experience of World War I, which ended in anomie and widespread fear of the coercive power of modern society. The price of the victory over evil, in these tales, is disenchantment. Tolkien is the first author to imagine disencha…
Introduction
It is often argued that a shared culture, or at least shared cultural references or practices, can help to foster peace and prevent war. This essay examines in detail and criticizes one such argument, made by Patrick Leigh Fermor, in the context of his discussing an incident during World War II, when he and a captured German general found a form of agreement, a ground for peace between them, in their both knowing Horace's ode I.9 by heart in Lati…
East of Asia Minor
Review Article| August 01 2020 East of Asia Minor: Rome’s Hidden Frontier by Timothy Bruce Mitford Mitford, Timothy Bruce, East of Asia Minor: Rome’s Hidden Frontier, 2 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 1024 pp. James Trilling James Trilling Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (3): 431–432. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8521525 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linke…
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