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Quarrel and Quandary Essays

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ISBN-10: 0375724451

ISBN-13: 9780375724459

Edition: N/A

Authors: Cynthia Ozick

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Quarrel & Quandary showcases the manifold talents of one of our leading and award-winning critics and essayists. In nineteen opulent essays, Cynthia Ozick probes Dostoevsky for insights into the Unabomber, questions the role of the public intellectual, and dares to wonder what poetry is. She roams effortlessly from Kafka to James, Styron to Stein, and, in the book's most famous essay, dissects the gaudy commercialism that has reduced Anne Frank to "usable goods." Courageous, audacious, and sublime, these essays have the courage of conviction, the probing of genius, and the durable audacity to matter.
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Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/13/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.03" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Writer Cynthia Ozick grew up in the Bronx and attended New York University, where she earned a B. A., and The Ohio State University, where she earned a Ph.D. Ozick wrote the novel Trust, and the short stories "The Sense of Europe", which was published in Prairie Schooner, and "The Shawl", which was included in The World of the Short Story. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Partisan Review, and Esquire. Ozick has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Harold Straus Living Award from the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters.

Forethoughts
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