Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination

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Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination

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English
Pages
363

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Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination
2005, University of Wisconsin Press
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Table of Contents

"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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Madison, Wisc

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/8924
Library of Congress
PS153.J4 K78 2005, PS153.J4K78 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
363

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3396118M
ISBN 10
0299214400
LCCN
2005008262
OCLC/WorldCat
58789047
LibraryThing
2325270
Goodreads
1539783

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OL5104750W

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