04039nam 22007934a 450 991096683690332120200520144314.097866122700179781282270015128227001X978029921443202992144352027/heb06608(CKB)1000000000473457(dli)HEB06608(SSID)ssj0000185648(PQKBManifestationID)11185359(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000185648(PQKBWorkID)10210943(PQKB)11418945(OCoLC)290525684(MdBmJHUP)muse12238(Au-PeEL)EBL3444712(CaPaEBR)ebr10217067(CaONFJC)MIL227001(MiAaPQ)EBC3444712(MiU)KOHA0000000000000000002730(Perlego)4424003(EXLCZ)99100000000047345720050325d2005 uy 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtccrJewish writing and the deep places of the imagination /Mark Krupnick ; edited by Jean K. Carney and Mark Shechner1st ed.Madison, Wis. University of Wisconsin Pressc20051 online resource (xvii, 363 p. ) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780299214401 0299214400 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.When he learned he had ALS and roughly two years to live, literary critic Mark Krupnick returned to the writers who had been his lifelong conversation partners and asked with renewed intensity: how do you live as a Jew, when, mostly, you live in your head? The evocative and sinuous essays collected here are the products of this inquiry. In his search for durable principles, Krupnick follows Lionel Trilling, Cynthia Ozick, Geoffrey Hartman, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and others into the elemental matters of life and death, sex and gender, power and vulnerability. The editors-Krupnick's wife, Jean K. Carney, and literary critic Mark Shechner-have also included earlier essays and introductions that link Krupnick's work with the "deep places" of his own imagination. ACLS Humanities E-Book.American literatureJewish authorsHistory and criticismJewsUnited StatesIntellectual lifeJudaism and literatureUnited StatesJudaism in literatureJews in literatureImaginationAmerican literatureJewish authorsHistory and criticism.JewsIntellectual life.Judaism and literatureJudaism in literature.Jews in literature.Imagination.810.9/8924Krupnick Mark1939-957283Carney Jean K957284Shechner Mark957285MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910966836903321Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination2168435UNINA