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Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination
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- Creator
- Mark Krupnick ; edited by Jean K. Carney and Mark Shechner
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- English
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- Publication
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- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 363 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9786612270017, 0299214435, 0299214400, 9780299214432, 128227001X, 9780299214401
- OCLC
- ocm58789047, ocn290525684
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 Jewish American 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