National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers
Jewish-American Writing Since 1945
June 25-August 3, 1990
Directed by Mark Krupnick, Department of English
Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this seminar will explore Jewish-American writing since 1945. The focus will be on prose fiction. The major figures to be studied are Bellow, Malamud, Roth, and Ozi, but the seminar will also study critical writing by Lionel Trilling, Harold Rosenberg, Leslie Fiedler, Irving Howe, and others. Emphasis will be on the intellectual and literary interrelations among these writers. The seminar will be anchored in a brief study of earlier generations of Jewish writers in Europe and America. The seminar has been designed for college teachers in American literatures and history, religious and ethnic studies, and general programs in the humanities.
Guest speaker:
James Atlas, New York Times
