Strange Paradise: Wrestling with the Golem and Double Idolatry in Cynthia Ozick's Puttermesser Papers
This article reads the stories of the paradise and the golem in Cynthia Ozick's novel Puttermesser Papers. I argue that these two intertwined stories, the dystopian utopia of the paradise and the birth and death of the golem, encapsulate the author's endeavour to wrestle with the idolatry...
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[2015]
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Literature and theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 66-85 |
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