Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination.
Krupnick, Mark.
Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (383 pages)
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.
9780299214432
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.
PS153
810.9/8924
Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (383 pages)
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.
9780299214432
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.
PS153
810.9/8924