A Cynthia Ozick Reader

by Ozick, Cynthia; Kauvar, Elaine M.

• ISBN13: 9780253210531
• ISBN10: 0253210534
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-05-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

"[Ozick's] range of influences is obvious in the fine selections of poems and short stories as well as essays from Art & Ardor (1983) and Metaphor and Memory (1989) that Kauvar has so sensitively chosen." -- Booklist"[This collection reflects] the imaginative, inventive, and insightful Ozick. Some of the best of Ozick as poet, essayist, and fiction writer is represented in A Cynthia Ozick Reader." -- Library Journal"Gathered here are some bristling, incandescent tales and thorny essays that show Ozick at her finest." -- The Seattle TimesCynthia Ozick is among the ten most important writers in North America today. This Reader brings her manifold talents together in a sampler of the many genres she explores. The poems, stories, and essays in this collection burst with all the energy of her capacious imagination. For those who have always lauded her, the Reader offers a representative selection; those new to Cynthia Ozick's work will revel in the discovery of a major writer.

Author Biography

ELAINE M. KAUVAR is Professor of English at Baruch College (CUNY). She is the author of Cynthia Ozick's Fiction: Tradition and Invention.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Greeks	p. 3
The Fish in the Net	p. 4
The Seventeen Questions of Rabbi Zusya	p. 6
Footnote to Lord Acton	p. 7
Commuters' Train through Harlem	p. 8
Caryatid	p. 9
When that with tragic rapture Moses stood	p. 10
a selection from Trust	p. 15
Envy; or, Yiddish in America	p. 20
Virility	p. 64
A Mercenary	p. 100
Puttermesser: Her Work History, Her Ancestry, Her Afterlife	p. 125
Puttermesser and Xanthippe	p. 137
At Fumicaro	p. 193
Mrs. Virginia Woolf: A Madwoman and Her Nurse	p. 225
Justice (Again) to Edith Wharton	p. 248
Justice to Feminism: 2. Literature and the Politics of Sex: A Dissent	p. 267
The Lesson of the Master	p. 273
Washington Square, 1946	p. 279
The Question of Our Speech: The Return to Aural Culture	p. 285
Crocodiled Moats in the Kingdom of Letters	p. 306
Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character	p. 311
A Selected Bibliography of the Writings of Cynthia Ozick	p. 315
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