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Jewish writing and the deep places of the imagination
Mark Krupnick, Jean K. Carney and Mark Shechner
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page ix)
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Foreword by Jean K. Carney (page xi)
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Introduction (page 3)
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I. JEWISH WRITERS
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"A Shit-Filled Life": Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater (page 15)
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"We Are Here to Be Humiliated": Philip Roth's Recent Fiction (page 40)
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Geoffrey Hartman, Wordsworth, and Holocaust Testimonies (page 51)
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Cynthia Ozick: Embarrassments (page 72)
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II. LIONEL TRILLING AND THE ORDEAL OF CIVILITY
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Lionel Trilling and the Deep Places of the Imagination (page 99)
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The Trillings: A Marriage of True Minds? (page 125)
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Lionel Trilling and the Politics of Style (page 138)
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III. CRITICS AND POLEMICS
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Philip Rahv: "He Never Learned to Swim" (page 157)
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Alfred Kazin and Irving Howe (page 178)
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The Two Worlds of Cultural Criticism (page 192)
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Edmund Wilson and Gentile Philo-Semitism (page 209)
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IV. PORTRAITS AND OBITS
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Listmania in Humboldt's Gift (page 225)
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Assimilation in Recent Jewish American Autobiographies (page 233)
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Revisiting Morrie: Were His Last Words Too Good To Be True? (page 255)
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The Art of the Obituary (page 261)
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V. LAST WORDS
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Why Are English Departments Still Fighting Culture Wars? (page 271)
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Upon Retirement (page 276)
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Afterword by Mark Shechner (page 287)
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Biographical Summary by Mark Shechner (page 337)
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Publications (page 349)
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Index (page 355)
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Published: 2005
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
- 9780299214401 (hardcover)
- 9780299214432 (ebook)