Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination

Contents

Acknowledgments..................................................................ix Foreword by Jean K. Carney.......................................................xi Introduction.....................................................................3 I. JEWISH WRITERS "A Shit-Filled Life": Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater............................15 "We Are Here to Be Humiliated": Philip Roth's Recent Fiction.....................40 Geoffrey Hartman, Wordsworth, and Holocaust Testimonies..........................51 Cynthia Ozick: Embarrassments....................................................72 II. LIONEL TRILLING AND THE ORDEAL OF CIVILITY Lionel Trilling and the Deep Places of the Imagination...........................99 The Trillings: A Marriage of True Minds?.........................................125 Lionel Trilling and the Politics of Style........................................138 III. CRITICS AND POLEMICS Philip Rahv: "He Never Learned to Swim"..........................................157 Alfred Kazin and Irving Howe........ ... read full excerpt from Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination ebook