Add to ORKGThis dissertation proposes a new way of understanding Cynthia Ozick's aesthetic project. I argue that her short stories and novels are engaged in untangling her self-styled contradiction between the creative impulse and Jewish observance. That is, while her non-fiction essays argue that story writing is akin to idol-making and studying literature akin to idolatry, her fictional narratives escape such censure because they are intended to work in the service of God, not to transgress God's commandments. In her fiction, Ozick employs narrative strategies that challenge what she has labelled the impious impulse of art. Such strategies include her characterizations, which often feature pious intellectuals, her narrative structures, which are oft...
Cynthia Ozick’s 1991 collection The Shawl, takes the readers to an exploration into an arching void ...
This dissertation explores the religious voices of three German-Jewish women. The trauma of exile ca...
This doctoral dissertation discusses the issue of religiosity in the context of American-Jewish lite...
Cynthia Ozick is one of the most respected contemporary American authors, whose fiction, according t...
Cynthia Ozick is one of the most respected contemporary American authors, whose fiction, according t...
In New Directions in Jewish American Fiction I argue that Jewish American writers have unwittingly p...
This dissertation examines the ways in which contemporary Jewish American authors rewrite traditiona...
[[abstract]]Gaston Bachelard maintains that our childhood home is our “first universe, a real cosmos...
This dissertation explores the many-faceted, and somewhat elusive question: What is American Jewish...
Cynthia Ozick, with her keen insight and sharp wit, has created many impressive images of intellectu...
The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick is an extremely intriguing attempt at writing hunger, loss and the Holoca...
Although much critical attention has been devoted to American-Jewish literature in the last twenty-f...
This dissertation examines post-Holocaust, Jewish American novelists who utilize messainism in their...
This thesis examines the fiction of three contemporary Jewish-American female writers, Grace Paley, ...
In the intimate circles of Hebrew and Yiddish culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
Cynthia Ozick’s 1991 collection The Shawl, takes the readers to an exploration into an arching void ...
This dissertation explores the religious voices of three German-Jewish women. The trauma of exile ca...
This doctoral dissertation discusses the issue of religiosity in the context of American-Jewish lite...
Cynthia Ozick is one of the most respected contemporary American authors, whose fiction, according t...
Cynthia Ozick is one of the most respected contemporary American authors, whose fiction, according t...
In New Directions in Jewish American Fiction I argue that Jewish American writers have unwittingly p...
This dissertation examines the ways in which contemporary Jewish American authors rewrite traditiona...
[[abstract]]Gaston Bachelard maintains that our childhood home is our “first universe, a real cosmos...
This dissertation explores the many-faceted, and somewhat elusive question: What is American Jewish...
Cynthia Ozick, with her keen insight and sharp wit, has created many impressive images of intellectu...
The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick is an extremely intriguing attempt at writing hunger, loss and the Holoca...
Although much critical attention has been devoted to American-Jewish literature in the last twenty-f...
This dissertation examines post-Holocaust, Jewish American novelists who utilize messainism in their...
This thesis examines the fiction of three contemporary Jewish-American female writers, Grace Paley, ...
In the intimate circles of Hebrew and Yiddish culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
Cynthia Ozick’s 1991 collection The Shawl, takes the readers to an exploration into an arching void ...
This dissertation explores the religious voices of three German-Jewish women. The trauma of exile ca...
This doctoral dissertation discusses the issue of religiosity in the context of American-Jewish lite...
