Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination / Mark Krupnick ; edited by Jean K. Carney and Mark Shechner.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Krupnick, Mark, 1939-
• TeilnehmendeR: Carney, Jean K.; Shechner, Mark.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xvii, 363 p.

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.