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Modernist Form and the Myth of Jewification /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Levi, Neil Jonathan, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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 Celine
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.