Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination / Mark Krupnick ; edited by Jean K. Carney and Mark Shechner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krupnick, Mark, 1939-

Contributor:

Carney, Jean K.

Shechner, Mark.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Jews--United States--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Judaism and literature--United States.

Judaism and literature.

Judaism in literature.

Jews in literature.

Imagination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 363 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When he learned he had ALS and roughly two years to live, literary critic Mark Krupnick returned to the writers who had been his lifelong conversation partners and asked with renewed intensity: how do you live as a Jew, when, mostly, you live in your head? The evocative and sinuous essays collected here are the products of this inquiry. In his search for durable principles, Krupnick follows Lionel Trilling, Cynthia Ozick, Geoffrey Hartman, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and others into the elemental matters of life and death, sex and gender, power and vulnerability. The editors-Krupnick's wife, Jean K. Carney, and literary critic Mark Shechner-have also included earlier essays and introductions that link Krupnick's work with the "deep places" of his own imagination.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-354) and index.

ISBN:

9786612270017

9781282270015

128227001X

9780299214432

0299214435

OCLC:

290525684

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06608 hdl