Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination
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Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination
About This Book
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 editorsâKrupnick's wife, Jean K. Carney, and literary critic Mark Shechnerâhave also included earlier essays and introductions that link Krupnick's work with the "deep places" of his own imagination.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I: Jewish Writers
- Part II: Lionel Trilling and the Ordeal of Civility
- Part III: Critics and Polemics
- Part IV: Portraits and Obits
- Part V: Last Words
- Afterword
- Biographical Summary
- Publications
- Index