TY - BOOK AU - Krupnick,Mark AU - Carney,Jean K. AU - Shechner,Mark TI - Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination SN - 9780299214432 AV - PS153 U1 - 810.9/8924 PY - 2005/// CY - Madison PB - University of Wisconsin Press KW - American literature-Jewish authors-History and criticism KW - Jews-United States-Intellectual life KW - Judaism and literature-United States KW - Judaism in literature KW - Jews in literature KW - Imagination KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3444712 ER -