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Article: Cynthia Ozick's Fiction: Tradition and Invention.
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- Studies in the Novel
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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KAUVAR, ELAINE M. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993). 288 pp. $29.95.
At a time when the (fascist) notion that physiology determines culture pervades literary interpretation and induces in many of its practitioners a tendency to express themselves in prose of stupefying opacity, Elaine Kauvar's comprehensive and beautifully written study of Cynthia Ozick's fiction should be welcomed as a heroic counter-cultural manifesto, both in what she says and in the elegance with which she says it. When, for example, she takes up the theme of Ozick's "Classical Feminism," Kauvar shows why this writer is no longer considered a reliable tribune of the women's rights ...