02350nam a22003974a 4500 ebr10217067 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 050325s2005 wiu sb 001 0 eng 2005008262 0299214400 (hardcover : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)290525684 n-us--- PS153.J4 K78 2005eb 810.9/8924 22 Krupnick, Mark, 1939- Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination [electronic resource] / Mark Krupnick ; edited by Jean K. Carney and Mark Shechner. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005. xvii, 363 p. 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. 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. local Carney, Jean K. Shechner, Mark. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10217067 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 129083 129083