TY - BOOK ID - 77872041 TI - Cynthia Ozick's comic art PY - 1994 SN - 0585225672 9780585225678 0253313988 9780253313980 PB - Bloomington Indiana University Press DB - UniCat KW - Comic, The, in literature. KW - Judaism in literature. KW - Jews in literature. KW - Women and literature KW - Jewish women KW - Comic, The, in literature KW - Judaism in literature KW - Jews in literature KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - American Literature KW - History KW - Intellectual life. KW - Intellectual life KW - Ozick, Cynthia KW - אוזיק, סינתיה KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77872041 AB - Bringing to bear insights from Jewish, literary, and cultural studies, Sarah Blacher Cohen sheds new light on the works of one of America's foremost writers. Arguing persuasively that Ozick's fiction is a form of comedy, Cohen interweaves religion and literature, skillfully illuminating the complex relationship between the comic and the sacred. Where others have emphasized Ozick's intellectualism and Jewish learning, Cohen foregrounds whimsicality, grotesque realism, irony, satire, and exuberance as the defining characteristics of Ozick's art in such works as Trust, The Cannibal Galaxy, The Messiah of Stockholm, "The Pagan Rabbi," and the Puttermesser stories. ER -