Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination

    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.

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Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination

    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.

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Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination

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Overview

    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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780299214432
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 01/09/2006
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 382
File size: 580 KB

About the Author

Mark Krupnick (1939-2003) was professor in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, editor of Displacement: Derrida and After, and author of Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism and more than two hundred essays and reviews.

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments 000 Foreword by Jean K. Carney 000 <LINE SPACE> Preface by Mark Shechner 000 Introduction 000 <LINE SPACE> I. Jewish Writers and "The Deep Places of the Imagination" "A Shit-Filled Life": Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater 000 "We Are Here to Be Humiliated": Philip Roth's Recent Fiction 000 Geoffrey Hartman, Wordsworth, and Holocaust Testimonies 000 Cynthia Ozick: Embarrassments 000 <LINE SPACE> II. Lionel Trilling and the Ordeal of Civility Lionel Trilling and "The Deep Places of the Imagination" 000 The Trillings: A Marriage of True Minds? 000 Lionel Trilling and the Politics of Style 000 <LINE SPACE> III. Critics and Polemics Philip Rahv: "He Never Learned to Swim" 000 Alfred Kazin and Irving Howe 000 The Two Worlds of Cultural Criticism 000 Edmund Wilson and Gentile Philo-Semitism 000 <LINE SPACE> IV. Portraits and Obits Listmania in Humboldt's Gift 000 Assimilation in Recent American Jewish Autobiographies 000 Revisiting Morrie: Were His Last Words Too Good To Be True? 000 The Art of the Obituary 000 <LINE SPACE> V. Last Words Why Are English Departments Still Fighting the Culture Wars? 000 Upon Retirement 000 <LINE SPACE> Biographical Summary 000 Publications 000
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