| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xii, 283 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cyril Connolly and the groans of success -- William Gaddis and the scion of darkness -- Italo Calvino : bringing stories to their senses -- The sister melons of J.M. Coetzee -- Primo Levi's suicide note -- What drives Saul Bellow -- Henry James's unborn child -- Emerging Dreiser -- George Steiner's either/or -- O spilling rapture! O happy stoup! -- A short note on "Chekhovian" -- Crocodiled moats in the kingdom of letters -- Portrait of the artist as a bad character -- On permission to write -- The seam of the snail -- Pear tree and polar bear : a word on life and art -- Washington Square, 1946 -- The function of the small press -- Of basilisks and barometzes -- The apprentice's pillar -- The muse, postmodern and homeless -- North -- The shock of teapots -- The question of our speech : the return to aural culture -- Sholem Aleichem's revolution -- A translator's monologue -- S.Y. Agnon and the first religion -- Bialik's hint -- Ruth -- Metaphor and memory. |
| Summary |
Alternate ISBN: 0-394-54701-2. |
| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Title |
Metaphor and memory.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Ozick, Cynthia. Metaphor & memory. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1989 (OCoLC)597942736 |
| ISBN |
0394547012 |
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9780394547015 |
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0679734252 (pbk.) |
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9780679734253 (pbk.) |
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