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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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    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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    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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    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.

    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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