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Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination

by Krupnick, Mark,
Additional authors: Carney, Jean K. | Shechner, Mark. | ebrary, Inc.
Published by : University of Wisconsin Press, (Madison, Wis. :) Physical details: xvii, 363 p.
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. | Imagination. | Electronic books.
Year: 2005
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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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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