TY - BOOK AU - Ozick,Cynthia TI - The din in the head: essays SN - 9780618470501 AV - PN771 .O98 2006 U1 - 809/.04 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Co. KW - Literature, Modern KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism N1 - On discord and desire -- What Helen Keller saw -- Young Tolstoy : an apostle of desire -- John Updike : Eros and god -- Throwing away the clef : Saul Bellow's Ravelstein -- Washington Square : so many absent things -- Smoke and fire : Sylvia Plath's journals -- Kipling : a postcolonial footnote -- Delmore Schwartz : the willed abortion of the self -- Lionel Trilling and the buried life -- Tradition and (or versus) the Jewish writer -- Henry James, Tolstoy, and my first novel -- Highbrow blues -- The din in the head -- The rule of the bus -- Isaac Babel : "Let me finish" -- In research of lost time -- The heretical passions of Gershom Scholem -- And god saw literature, that it was good : Robert Alter's version- -- An (unfortunate) interview with Henry James UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0514/2005016102.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0622/2005016102-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0665/2005016102-s.html ER -