Jewish Writing And the Deep Places of the Imagination

When Krupnick (d. 2003, U. of Chicago Divinity School) learned that his life expectancy was short due to ALS, the literary critic revisited his guiding influences and issues about living as a Jew. Carney, Krupnick's wife, and literary critic Shechner introduce 17 of his essays critiquing, for example, the motif of physical decline in Philip Roth's novels, Lionel Trilling on the literature-politics link, assimilation in recent Jewish American autobiographies, and ALS sufferer Morrie Schwartz's last words recorded in Tuesday's with Morrie. His publications are listed. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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.