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Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination

Main Author: Krupnick, Mark, 1939-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Carney, Jean K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005.
Subjects:
American literature > Jewish authors > History and criticism.
Jews > Intellectual life. > United States
Judaism and literature > United States.
Judaism in literature.
Jews in literature.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10217067
Table of Contents:
  • "A shit-filled life": Philip Roth's Sabbath's theater
  • "We are here to be humiliated": Philip Roth's recent fiction
  • Geoffrey Hartman, Wordsworth, and Holocaust testimonies
  • Cynthia Ozick: embarrassments
  • Lionel Trilling and "the deep places of the imagination"
  • The Trillings : a marriage of true minds?
  • Lionel Trilling and the politics of style
  • Philip Rahv : "he never learned to swim"
  • Alfred Kazin and Irving Howe
  • The two worlds of cultural criticism
  • Edmund Wilson and gentile philo-Semitism
  • Listmania in Humboldt's gift
  • Assimilation in recent American Jewish autobiographies
  • Revisiting Morrie: were his last words too good to be true?
  • The art of the obituary
  • Why are English departments still fighting the culture wars?
  • Upon retirement.

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