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Ozick, Cynthia - 1928–, American writer, b. New York City, studied New York Univ. (B.A., 1949), Ohio State Univ. (M.A., 1950). Her fiction, written with high intelligence, elegent incisiveness, and sharp, frequently satiric wit, is mainly concerned with facets of Jewish life and thought including the Holocaust and its legacy, the Jewish presence in contemporary life, and Jewish mysticism

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Cynthia Ozick » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 175 pgs.

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Untying the Tongue: Gender, Power, and the Word (Chap. 6 "Reading Our Selves in The Cannibal Galaxy") » Read Now
by Linda Longmire, Lisa Merrill. 316 pgs.

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The words and grammatical structure of a given language are the most basic building blocks of thought and communication; they reflect the ways speakers communicate with others and conceptualize themselves and their world. Since language reflects a culture's biases and inequities, a socially...
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The words and grammatical structure of a given language are the most basic building blocks of thought and communication; they reflect the ways speakers communicate with others and conceptualize themselves and their world. Since language reflects a culture's biases and inequities, a socially constructed, gendered power differential between men and women may lead each to have very different relationships to language.
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Limning the Cannibal Galaxy: Cynthia Ozick's Moral Imagination, in Criticism » Read Now
by Arlene Fish Wilner. 26 pgs.

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Historical Nightmares and Imaginative Violence in American Women's Writings (Chap. 6 "How to Say It: Art and the Holocaust in Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl") » Read Now
by Amy S. Gottfried. 158 pgs.

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Interpreting five contemporary novels that document suppressed histories of violence and abuse, including Toni Morrison's Beloved and Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, the author then examines the disturbing connections between violence and art.
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Nature's Silent Scream: A Commentary on Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl," in Critique » Read Now
by Barbara Scrafford. 6 pgs.

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Jewish Women Fiction Writers ("Cynthia Ozick" begins on p. 70) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 177 pgs.

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Triangles of History and the Slippery Slope of Jewish American Identity in Two Stories by Cynthia Ozick, in MELUS » Read Now
by Janet L. Cooper. 14 pgs.

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Disruptive Memories: Cynthia Ozick, Assimilation, and the Invented Past, in MELUS » Read Now
by Peter Kerry Powers. 19 pgs.

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The Ritual of New Creation: Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Literature (Chap. 4 "The Struggle for Historicity: Cynthia Ozick's Fiction") » Read Now
by Norman Finkelstein. 162 pgs.

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Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination ("Cynthia Ozick" begins on p. 149) » Read Now
by S. Lillian Kremer. 278 pgs.

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Iconoclastic Commitments: Idolatry and Imagination in Cynthia Ozick and Ronald Sukenick, in Mosaic (Winnipeg) » Read Now
by Adam Katz. 18 pgs.

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"And Here [Their] Troubles Began": The Legacy of the Holocaust in the Writing of Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, and Philip Roth, in CLIO » Read Now
by Sophia Lehmann. 23 pgs.

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A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English ("Cynthia Ozick (April 17, 1928-)" begins on p. 324) » Read Now
by Erin Fallon, R. C. Feddersen, James Kurtzleben, Maurice A. Lee, Susan Rochette-Crawley. 432 pgs.

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Though many outstanding novels have been written in the last century, most of these novelists have also been short story writers. This reference is a guide to contemporary English-language short story writers and their works. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 50 writers from...
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Though many outstanding novels have been written in the last century, most of these novelists have also been short story writers. This reference is a guide to contemporary English-language short story writers and their works. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 50 writers from around the world, most of whom have been active since 1960. More than half the American writers belong to historically marginalized groups, such as Jewish-Americans, African-Americans, and Asian-Americans, and the volume includes entries for slightly more women than men. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides biographical material, a review of criticism, an extended analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography.
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Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990 ("Cynthia Ozick, Writer" begins on p. 216) » Read Now
by Susanne Klingenstein. 492 pgs.

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In this groundbreaking study, the author examines the gradual opening of literary academe to Jewish faculty and analyzes the critical work Jewish scholars undertook to achieve their integration into an exclusive WASP domain.
Beginning her story at Harvard University, Klingenstein describes the unique...
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In this groundbreaking study, the author examines the gradual opening of literary academe to Jewish faculty and analyzes the critical work Jewish scholars undertook to achieve their integration into an exclusive WASP domain.
Beginning her story at Harvard University, Klingenstein describes the unique intellectual paths taken by scholars such as Harry Levin, Daniel Aaron, M. H. Abrams, Leo Marx, and Sacvan Bercovitch. At Columbia University, Klingenstein argues that the singular Jewish presence of Lionel Trilling shaped the minds and inspired the careers of Jewish intellectuals as different as Cynthia Ozick, Norman Podhoretz, Steven Marcus, and Carolyn Heilbrun.
Once Jewish scholars had attained a strong foothold in literary academe, pioneering spirits such as Robert Alter and Ruth R. Wisse turned their attention from English and American to Jewish literature in Hebrew and Yiddish.
Written as an interconnected series of twelve lucid and compelling portraits of major figures in the history ofAmerican literary criticism, this book illuminates the element of serendipity in culture-formation and exposes the social and intellectual forces at work in cultural change.
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