LEADER 03941nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910822019803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-5508-5 010 $a0-8232-6086-0 010 $a0-8232-5509-3 010 $a0-8232-5507-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823255085 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418085 035 $a(EBL)1507502 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000981174 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11632751 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000981174 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10972383 035 $a(PQKB)10034280 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000292581 035 $a(OCoLC)867740219 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27570 035 $a(DE-B1597)555168 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823255085 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239836 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10747391 035 $a(OCoLC)960757935 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4703372 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL818212 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239836 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1507502 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4703372 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418085 100 $a20130516d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aModernist form and the myth of Jewification /$fNeil Levi 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2014 215 $a1 online resource (414 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-5506-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine 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 Celine -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a"Why were modernist works of art, literature, and music that were neither by nor about Jews nevertheless interpreted as Jewish? In this book, Neil Levi explores how the antisemitic fantasy of a mobile, dangerous, contagious Jewish spirit unfolds in the antimodernist polemics of Richard Wagner, Max Nordau, Wyndham Lewis, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine, reaching its apotheosis in the notorious 1937 Nazi exhibition "Degenerate Art." Levi then turns to James Joyce, Theodor W. Adorno, and Samuel Beckett, offering radical new interpretations of these modernist authors to show how each presents his own poetics as a self-conscious departure from the modern antisemitic imaginary. Levi claims that, just as antisemites once feared their own contamination by a mobile, polluting Jewish spirit, so too much of postwar thought remains governed by the fear that it might be contaminated by the spirit of antisemitism. Thus he argues for the need to confront and work through our own fantasies and projections not only about the figure of the Jew but also about that of the antisemite"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aModernism (Art) 606 $aArt criticism 606 $aAntisemitism 615 0$aModernism (Art) 615 0$aArt criticism. 615 0$aAntisemitism. 676 $a700/.4112 686 $aREL040030$aLIT004170$aPHI001000$2bisacsh 700 $aLevi$b Neil Jonathan$f1967-$01722087 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822019803321 996 $aModernist form and the myth of Jewification$94122180 997 $aUNINA