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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Main Author: Ni, Zhange 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2015]
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 66-85
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
CD Christianity and Culture
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