TY - BOOK AU - Krupnick,Mark AU - Carney,Jean K. AU - Shechner,Mark ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination AV - PS153.J4 K78 2005 U1 - 810.9/8924 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Madison, Wis. PB - University of Wisconsin Press KW - American literature KW - Jewish authors KW - History and criticism KW - Jews KW - United States KW - Intellectual life KW - Judaism and literature KW - Judaism in literature KW - Jews in literature KW - Imagination KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3444712 ER -