The Shawl: A Story and a Novella Summary Cynthia Ozick
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The author of two novels and dozens of essays, Cynthia Ozick is best known for her three collections of short fiction, The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971), Bloodshed and Three Novellas (1976), an...
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Cynthia Ozick's stature as a writer came through a long apprenticeship, during which she often read eighteen hours a day. Having so intensely lived within literature herself, she can by a few deft all...
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One of the most versatile contemporary American writers, Cynthia Ozick has written novels, short fiction, essays, poems, a play, and many articles and reviews. In the United States she has received th...
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In the following essay, Kauver investigates how themes from Ozick's earlier writings both reoccur and change in The Shawl.
A writer who resists finality is a writer whose imagination is given o...
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In the following essay, Gordon examines the shawl as a transitional object, as defined by D.W. Winnicott, and as the focus of the conflict in “The Shawl.”
Cynthia Ozick's “...
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In the following essay, Kremer compares The Shawl to Touching Evil by Jewish American writer Norma Rosen, while exploring the violence brought upon Jewish women in the Holocaust.
Writing by Jewish Ame...
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In the following essay, Alkana argues that Ozick presents a “more complex post-Holocaust literary aesthetic” than previous authors writing of the Holocaust have offered.
For American Jew...
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In the following essay, Wirth-Nesher examines how fiction acts as collective memory and the specific instance in The Shawl of the fictional account of a Holocaust survivor's remembrance.
There ...
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In the following essay, Rosenberg investigates how Ozick's use of the midrashic mode, which finds its origins in “to search” or “to inquire,” allows her to approach ...
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In the following essay, Hattenhauer, McCool, and McMahon, in a close reading of the “The Shawl”'s conclusion, suggest that a complex reading is more appropriate than a simplistic ...
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Cynthia Ozick
Critical Essay by Elaine M. Kauver
