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. ; 23 cm.
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,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary 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.
Electronic books.
PS153.J4 / K78 2005eb
810.9/8924
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. ; 23 cm.
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,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary 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.
Electronic books.
PS153.J4 / K78 2005eb
810.9/8924