In Popular Culture
- Jacob Wrestling with the Angel is the subject of a 1940 sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein.
- It is a chapter in Herman Hesse's novel Demian (1919)
- It is mentioned in Dodie Smith's debut novel I Capture the Castle (1948).
- It was referenced in the 1990 play Angels in America by Tony Kushner. The version depicted on-screen was the 1865 version by Alexander Louis Leloir.
- It was mentioned in Margaret Laurence's "The Stone Angel" published in 1964.
- It is mentioned in the U2 song "Bullet the Blue Sky" on their 1987 album The Joshua Tree.
- It is mentioned in the Switchfoot song "Twenty-Four" on their 2003 album The Beautiful Letdown ("I wrestled the Angel, for more than a name").
- Gustave Dore's image is reenacted in Jean-Luc Godard's Passion by a film extra dressed as an angel and Jerzy Radziwiłowicz.
- It is referenced in Rainer Maria Rilke's poem, "The Man Watching" published in 1920.
- It is mentioned in Maud Hart Lovelace's novel Betsy's Wedding, first published in 1955.
- It is mentioned in Sheila Heti's novel, "How Should A Person Be?" published in 2012.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Both gossip and joking are intrinsically valuable activities. Both are essentially social activities that strengthen interpersonal bonds—we do not tell jokes and gossip to ourselves. As popular activities that evade social restrictions, they often refer to topics that are inaccessible to serious public discussion. Gossip and joking often appear together: when we gossip we usually tell jokes and when we are joking we often gossip as well.”
—Aaron Ben-Ze’Ev, Israeli philosopher. “The Vindication of Gossip,” Good Gossip, University Press of Kansas (1994)
“We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle- class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)