Modernist form and the myth of Jewification
Machine generated contents note:Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Phobic Reading, Modernist Form, and the Figure of the Antisemite -- Part I: Modernist Form as Judaization -- 1. Genealogies: Judaization, Wagner, Nordau -- 2. Jews, Art, and History: The Nazi Exhibition of "Degenerate Art" as...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, N.Y.
Fordham University Press
2014
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| Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note:Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Phobic Reading, Modernist Form, and the Figure of the Antisemite -- Part I: Modernist Form as Judaization -- 1. Genealogies: Judaization, Wagner, Nordau -- 2. Jews, Art, and History: The Nazi Exhibition of "Degenerate Art" as Historicopolitical Spectacle -- 3. Fanatical Abstraction: Wyndham Lewis's Critique of Modernist Form as Judaization in Time and Western Man -- Part II: Modernist Form and the Antisemitic Imagination -- 4. Straw Men: Projection, Personification, and Narrative Form in Ulysses -- 5. Images of the Bilderverbot: Adorno, Antisemitism, and the Enemies of Modernism -- 6. The Labor of Late Modernist Poetics: Beckett after Céline -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. "This book argues that the antisemitic interpretation of modernist form as a symptom of a mobile, contagious Jewish spirit needs to be treated as integral to the history of European modernism. The notion of modernist form as Jewified lies at the heart of both a certain modernism's hostile reception, and its self-conception"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index |
| Beschreibung: | x, 261 S. Ill. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780823255061 978-0-8232-5506-1 |