Bibliograph

The din in the head, essays, Cynthia Ozick

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The din in the head, essays, Cynthia Ozick

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The din in the head

Oclc number

60603185

Responsibility statement

Cynthia Ozick

Sub title

essays

Table Of Contents

On discord and desire -- What Helen Keller saw -- Young Tolstoy : an apostle of desire -- John Updike : Eros and god -- Throwing away the clef : Saul Bellow's Ravelstein -- Washington Square : so many absent things -- Smoke and fire : Sylvia Plath's journals -- Kipling : a postcolonial footnote -- Delmore Schwartz : the willed abortion of the self -- Lionel Trilling and the buried life -- Tradition and (or versus) the Jewish writer -- Henry James, Tolstoy, and my first novel -- Highbrow blues -- The din in the head -- The rule of the bus -- Isaac Babel : "Let me finish" -- In research of lost time -- The heretical passions of Gershom Scholem -- And god saw literature, that it was good : Robert Alter's version- -- An (unfortunate) interview with Henry James

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