The absoluteness of the principle of contradiction is sai that disappears under the scrutiny of
thinking. Correc the abstraction of thinking is a phantom that disappear ity of existence, …

merican Jewish writers too often face able demand that they be responsible f and revitalizing
Jewishness. To yield t is to renounce the freedom of imagina unthinkable sacrifice for a …

The influence of Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote is traced through Jane Austen's
work, from her Juvenilia through Emma. Although Mrs. Lennox burlesques readers of the …

The interview took place over brunch at the St. Regis Hotel in M hattan, which, as Chaim
Potok remarked, was the" New York thing do." That sense of the fashionable in contemporary …

The escalation of scholarship on the pansion of publications in American J and the
proliferation of American Jew the 1980s suggest a renewal of interest American Jews, in things …

Master of the meticulous sentence and champion of the moral sense of art, Cynthia Ozick
warns against the" work of art as an end in itself" and urges instead its connection with …

OZICK I 41 the world's design"(p. 24); in Puttermesser and Xanthippe she reads Theaetetus,
adopting it as a model for the intellectual's life. The passage Puttermesser reads from …

For over two decades, Philip Roth has brooded over the relationship between facts and fiction,
sometimes casting doubt on their separability, sometimes purposely intertwining them. At …

One of the most disquieting signs of our times is the unprecedented proliferation of novels in
an age that has repeatedly declared its uncertainty not only about the novel as a genre, not …

… For a fuller discussion of this matter, see Elaine M. Kauvar, “Introduction: Some Reflections
on Contemporary American Jewish Culture,” Contemporary Literature 34 (1993): 337–57. …