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Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0815603525
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593318836
From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings In Antiquities, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with the troubling distractions of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family's heritage--in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie--he reconstructs the passions of a childhood encounter with the oddly named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil who claims descent from Egypt's Elephantine Island. From this seed emerges one of Cynthia Ozick's most wondrous tales, touched by unsettling irony and the elusive flavor of a Kafka parable, and weaving, in her own distinctive voice, myth and mania, history and illusion.
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593313190
With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life is minimal (she prefers pouring through Plato to romping with married Morris Rappoport). And her fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true - with disastrous consequences for what we laughably call "reality." Puttermesser yearns for a daughter and promptly creates one, unassisted, in the form of the first recorded female golem. Laboring in the dusty crevices of the civil service, she dreams of reforming the city - and manages to get herself elected mayor. Puttermesser contemplates the afterlife and is hurtled into it headlong, only to discover that a paradise found is also paradise lost. Overflowing with ideas, lambent with wit, The Puttermesser Papers is a tour de force by one of our most visionary novelists. "The finest achievement of Ozick's career... It has all the buoyant integrity of a Chagall painting." -San Francisco Chronicle "Fanciful, poignant... so intelligent, so finely expressed that, like its main character, it remains endearing, edifying, a spark of light in the gloom." -The New York Times "A crazy delight." -The New York Time Book Review
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : Orion
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Children of authors
ISBN : 0753820749
In the outskirts of the Bronx in 1930s New York, the Mitwisser clan are German refugees who survive at the whim of their vagabond benefactor, James A'Bair. James is heir to the fortune amassed by his father, the author of a wildly popular series of children's books called The Bear Boy. Into their chaotic household comes Rose Meadows, orphaned at the age of eighteen. Employed as an assistant to the eccentric Professor Mitwisser, Rose's position within the family is precarious, especially when the arrival of James threatens the fragile balance of the household.
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780544703698
In a collection that includes new essays written explicitly for this volume, one of our sharpest and most influential critics confronts the past, present, and future of literary culture. If every outlet for book criticism suddenly disappeared — if all we had were reviews that treated books like any other commodity — could the novel survive? In a gauntlet-throwing essay at the start of this brilliant assemblage, Cynthia Ozick stakes the claim that, just as surely as critics require a steady supply of new fiction, novelists need great critics to build a vibrant community on the foundation of literary history. For decades, Ozick herself has been one of our great critics, as these essays so clearly display. She offers models of critical analysis of writers from the mid-twentieth century to today, from Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Kafka, to William Gass and Martin Amis, all assembled in provocatively named groups: Fanatics, Monsters, Figures, and others. Uncompromising and brimming with insight, these essays are essential reading for anyone facing the future of literature in the digital age.
Author : Lawrence S. Friedman
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0872497720
Discussing Jewish themes in Ozick's writings, examines the literary evocation of the Holocaust in the novels "Trust" (1966), "The Messiah of Stockholm" (1987), and in the story "The Shawl" (1989).
Author : Catherine Rainwater,Willliam J. Scheick
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813182995
Ann Beattie, Annie Dillard, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Marge Piercy, Anne Redmon, Anne Tyler, and Alice Walker all seem to be especially concerned with narrative management. The ten essays in this book raise new and intriguing questions about the ways these leading women writers appropriate and transform generic norms and ultimately revise literary tradition to make it more inclusive of female experience, vision, and expression. The contributors to this volume discover diverse narrative strategies. Beattie, Dillard, Paley, and Redmon in divergent ways rely heavily upon narrative gaps, surfaces, and silences, often suggesting depths which are lamentably absent from modern experience or which mysteriously elude language. For Kingston and Walker, verbal assertiveness is the focus of narratives depicting the gradual empowerment of female protagonists who learn to speak themselves into existence. Ozick and Tyler disrupt conventional reader expectations of the "anti-novel" and the "family novel," respectively. Finally, Morrison's and Piercy's works reveal how traditional narrative forms such as the Bildungsroman and the "soap opera" are adaptable to feminist purposes. In examining the writings of these ten important women authors, this book illuminates a significant moment in literary history when women's voices are profoundly reshaping American literary tradition.
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593313213
A small group of Jews weave a web of intrigue and fantasy around a book reviewer's contention that he is the son of Borus Schultz, the legendary Polish writer killed by the Nazis before his magnum opus, THE MESSIAH, could be brought to light.
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0815603533
A collection of readings relevant to the development of an intercultural psychology which takes into account the different circumstances, needs, values, constructions of reality, and worldviews and belief systems that significantly shape the experience and behavior of cultural groups. The 34 papers and introductory essay are arranged in four parts: the politics of difference; development, adaption, and the acquisition of culture; self and other in cultural context; and diagnostic assessment, treatment, and cultural bias. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Jewish fiction
ISBN : 0815603517
Ozick is a kind of narrative hypnotist. Her range is extraordinary; there is seemingly nothing she can't do. Her stories contain passages of intense lyricism and brilliant, hilarious, uncontainable inventiveness.
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547504551
In her sixth novel, Cynthia Ozick retells the story of Henry James’s The Ambassadors as a photographic negative, retaining the plot but reversing the meaning. Foreign Bodies transforms Henry James’s prototype into a brilliant, utterly original, new American classic. At the core of the story is Bea Nightingale, a fiftyish divorced schoolteacher whose life has been on hold during the many years since her brief marriage. When her estranged, difficult brother asks her to leave New York for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows, she becomes entangled in the lives of her brother’s family and even, after so long, her ex-husband. Every one of them is irrevocably changed by the events of just a few months in that fateful year. Traveling from New York to Paris to Hollywood, aiding and abetting her nephew and niece while waging a war of letters with her brother, facing her ex-husband and finally shaking off his lingering sneers from decades past, Bea Nightingale is a newly liberated divorcee who inadvertently wreaks havoc on the very people she tries to help.
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : HMH
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547526058
“Four expertly turned stories” of comedy, deception, and revenge from the acclaimed author of Heir to the Glimmering World (TheNew York Times Book Review). A New York Times Notable Book Dictation brings together four long stories by this Pulitzer and Man Booker Prize finalist, forming a quartet of sly humor and piercing insight into the human heart. The title story imagines a fateful meeting between the secretaries to Henry James and Joseph Conrad at the peak of their fame. Timid Miss Hallowes, who types for Conrad, comes under the influence of James’s Miss Bosanquet, high-spirited, flirtatious, and scheming. In a masterstroke of genius, Ozick hatches a plot between them to insert themselves into literary posterity. Each story in the collection starts in the comic mode, with heroes who suffer willful self-deceit. From self-deception, these not-so-innocents proceed to deceive others, who don’t take it lightly. Revenge is the consequence—and for the reader, a delicious if dark recognition of emotional truth. In Dictation, an author whose stories have won four O. Henry first prizes “reveals herself a master” (The New York Times Book Review). “A testament to the seductions of language and the smoldering aspirations of art.” —O, The Oprah Magazine “A brilliant book, a necessary book, a book that radiates the true intelligence of literature from every page.” —The New York Observer
Author : Alan L. Berger
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791496442
Explores how Jewish American writers have grappled with the enormity of the Holocaust.
Author : Victor H. Strandberg
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299142647
Looks closely at fiction-writer Ozick's intellectual moorings and, with them in view, renders an interpretive reading of her books (and some poetry). Strandberg manages to write criticism in jargon-free language intelligible to sophisticated readers from various backgrounds. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Educators
ISBN : 0140153411
