The din in the head essays
| Main Author: | Ozick, Cynthia. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Co.,
2006.
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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.