Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination [electronic resource] / Mark Krupnick ; edited by Jean K. Carney and Mark Shechner.
By: Krupnick, Mark.
Contributor(s): Carney, Jean K | Shechner, Mark | ebrary, Inc
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Publisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005Description: xvii, 363 p. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism | Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life | Judaism and literature -- United States | Judaism in literature | Jews in literature | ImaginationGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/8924 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-354) and index.
"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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.