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Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (383 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780299214432
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the ImaginationDDC classification:
  • 810.9/8924
LOC classification:
  • PS153
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Jewish Writers -- " A Shit-Filled Life" -- " We Are Here to Be Humiliated" -- Geoffrey Hartman, Wordsworth, and Holocaust Testimonies -- Cynthia Ozick -- Part II: Lionel Trilling and the Ordeal of Civility -- Lionel Trilling and the Deep Places of the Imagination -- The Trillings -- Lionel Trilling and the Politics of Style -- Part III: Critics and Polemics -- Philip Rahv -- Alfred Kazin and Irving Howe -- The Two Worlds of Cultural Criticism -- Edmund Wilson and Gentile Philo-Semitism -- Part IV: Portraits and Obits -- Listmania in Humboldt's Gift -- Assimilation in Recent Jewish American Autobiographies -- Revisiting Morrie -- The Art of the Obituary -- Part V: Last Words -- Why Are English Departments Still Fighting the Culture Wars? -- Upon Retirement -- Afterword -- Biographical Summary -- Publications -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Jewish Writers -- " A Shit-Filled Life" -- " We Are Here to Be Humiliated" -- Geoffrey Hartman, Wordsworth, and Holocaust Testimonies -- Cynthia Ozick -- Part II: Lionel Trilling and the Ordeal of Civility -- Lionel Trilling and the Deep Places of the Imagination -- The Trillings -- Lionel Trilling and the Politics of Style -- Part III: Critics and Polemics -- Philip Rahv -- Alfred Kazin and Irving Howe -- The Two Worlds of Cultural Criticism -- Edmund Wilson and Gentile Philo-Semitism -- Part IV: Portraits and Obits -- Listmania in Humboldt's Gift -- Assimilation in Recent Jewish American Autobiographies -- Revisiting Morrie -- The Art of the Obituary -- Part V: Last Words -- Why Are English Departments Still Fighting the Culture Wars? -- Upon Retirement -- Afterword -- Biographical Summary -- Publications -- Index.

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