Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination
By: Mark Krupnick ; edited by Jean K. Carney and Mark Shechner.
Contributors: Carney, Jean K.; Shechner, Mark.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Madison, Wisc
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.; Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life.; Judaism and literature -- United States.; Judaism in literature.; Jews in literature.; Imagination.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "A shit-filled life": Philip Roth's Sabbath's theater; title: "We are here to be humiliated": Philip Roth's recent fiction; title: Geoffrey Hartman, Wordsworth, and Holocaust testimonies; title: Cynthia Ozick: embarrassments; title: Lionel Trilling and "the deep places of the imagination"; title: The Trillings : a marriage of true minds?; title: Lionel Trilling and the politics of style; title: Philip Rahv : "he never learned to swim"; title: Alfred Kazin and Irving Howe; title: The two worlds of cultural criticism; title: Edmund Wilson and gentile philo-Semitism; title: Listmania in Humboldt's gift; title: Assimilation in recent American Jewish autobiographies; title: Revisiting Morrie: were his last words too good to be true?; title: The art of the obituary; title: Why are English departments still fighting the culture wars?; title: Upon retirement.