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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (x, 261 pages) : illustrations |
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data file |
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Bibliography |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-245) and index. |
| Summary |
Why were modernist works of art, literature, and music that were neither by nor about Jews nevertheless interpreted as Jewish? In this book, the author explores how the antisemitic fantasy of a mobile, dangerous, contagious Jewish spirit unfolds in the antimodernist polemics of Richard Wagner, Max Nordau, Wyndham Lewis, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine, reaching its apotheosis in the notorious 1937 Nazi exhibition "Degenerate Art." The author then turns to James Joyce, Theodor W. Adorno, and Samuel Beckett, offering radical new interpretations of these modernist authors to show how each presents his own poetics as a self-conscious departure from the modern antisemitic imaginary. The author claims that, just as antisemites once feared their own contamination by a mobile, polluting Jewish spirit, so too much of postwar thought remains governed by the fear that it might be contaminated by the spirit of antisemitism. Thus he argues for the need to confront and work through our own fantasies and projections not only about the figure of the Jew, but also about that of the antisemite. -- Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
Introduction : Phobic Reading, Modernist Form, and the Figure of the Antisemite -- Modernist Form as Judaization. Genealogies : Judaization, Wagner, Nordau ; Jews, Art, and History : The Nazi Exhibition of "Degenerate Art" as Historicopolitical Spectacle ; Fanatical Abstraction : Wyndham Lewis's Critique of Modernist Form as Judaization in Time and Western Man -- Modernist Form and the Antisemitic Imagination. Straw Men : Projection, Personification, and Narrative Form in Ulysses ; Images of the Bilderverbot : Adorno, Antisemitism, and the Enemies of Modernism ; The Labor of Late Modernist Poetics : Beckett after Celine. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Modernism (Art)
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Modernism (Art) |
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Art criticism.
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Art criticism. |
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Antisemitism.
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Antisemitism. |
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art criticism. |
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antisemitism. |
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- History. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Levi, Neil Jonathan, 1967- Modernist form and the myth of Jewification. 1st ed. New York : Fordham University Press, 2014 (DLC) 2013016311 |
| ISBN |
0823255069 (hardback) |
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9780823255061 (hardback) |
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9780823255085 |
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0823255085 |
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9780823255092 |
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0823255093 |
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9780823260867 |
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0823260860 |
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9780823255061 (hardback) |
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