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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism. Jews--Intellectual life.--United States Judaism and literature--United States. Judaism in literature. Jews in literature. Imagination.