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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451742503321

Autore

Krupnick Mark <1939->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-27001-X

9786612270017

0-299-21443-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 363 p. )

Altri autori (Persone)

CarneyJean K

ShechnerMark

Disciplina

810.9/8924

Soggetti

American literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism

Jews - United States - Intellectual life

Judaism and literature - United States

Judaism in literature

Jews in literature

Imagination

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-354) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.