Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krupnick, Mark, 1939-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Carney, Jean K., Shechner, Mark
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005.
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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.