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Author:

Ozick, Cynthia.

Title:

Quarrel & quandary : essays / by Cynthia Ozick.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Distributed by Random House,
Distributed by Random House,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

xiii, 247 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Literature--History and criticism.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book."--T.p., verso.

Contents:

The synthetic sublime. Dostoyevsky's unabomber -- The posthumous sublime -- The impossibility of being Kafka -- The impious impatience of Job -- Who owns Anne Frank? -- The rights of history and the rights of imagination -- Public intellectuals -- The selfishness of art -- Cinematic James -- A prophet of modernism -- Imaginary people -- The ladle -- What is poetry about? -- A Swedish novel -- She : portrait of the essay as a warm body -- A drug store Eden -- Lovesickness -- How I got fired from my summer job -- The synthetic sublime.

ISBN:

9780375410611 (alk. paper)
0375410619 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43186067

LCCN:

99089889

Locations:

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)