Cynthia Ozick's Fiction Tradition and Invention |
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| Author:
| Kauvar, Elaine |
| Series title: | Jewish Literature and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-253-33129-8 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1993 |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $50.59 |
Book Description:
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"Superb novelists deserve first-rate literary analysis. Cynthia Ozick has found such critics... most recently in Elaine Kauvar, whose present work is simultaneously a profound contribution to Ozick interpretation and an astonishingly readable account of the novelist's ideas and artistic manner.... Highly recommended."nbsp;--Choice
"... comprehensive and beautifully written... "nbsp;--Studies in the Novel
"... an indispensible work of scholarship.... #157;Cynthia...
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"Superb novelists deserve first-rate literary analysis. Cynthia Ozick has found such critics... most recently in Elaine Kauvar, whose present work is simultaneously a profound contribution to Ozick interpretation and an astonishingly readable account of the novelist's ideas and artistic manner.... Highly recommended."nbsp;--Choice
"... comprehensive and beautifully written... "nbsp;--Studies in the Novel
"... an indispensible work of scholarship.... #157;Cynthia Ozick's Fiction, in sum, demonstrates an astute and comprehensive grasp of both Ozick's writings and the vast store of writings that influence her... a definitive and indispensible study... "nbsp;--American Literature
"... a rare combination of painstaking scholarship with dazzling critical intelligence and inventiveness." --Edward Alexander
"... Elaine Kauvar's comprehensive and beautifully written study of Cynthia Ozick's fiction should be welcomed as a heroic counter-cultural manifesto, both in what she says and in the elegance with which she says it." --Congress Monthly
Looking beyond the stereotype of Ozick's work as American-Jewish literature, Kauvar illuminates the intricacies of Ozick's texts and explores the dynamics of her creativity. Kauvar provides readings of all of Ozick's fiction from her first published novel, #157;Trust, through #157;The Messiah of Stockholm.