Modernist form and the myth of Jewification [[electronic resource] /] / Neil Levi

• Autore: Levi Neil Jonathan <1967->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2014
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (414 p.)
• Disciplina: 700/.4112
• Soggetto topico: Modernism (Art); Art criticism; Antisemitism
• Soggetto non controllato: Culture; Fascism; Holocaust Studies; James Joyce; Jewification; Jews and the arts; Judaization; Max Nordau; Nazi art policy; Nazism; Richard Wagner; Samuel Beckett; Theodor W. Adorno; Wyndham Lewis; anti-semitism; fascism and the arts; modernism; modernity; the arts; the avant-garde
• Classificazione: REL040030LIT004170PHI001000
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Modernist form and the myth of Jewification
• ISBN: 0-8232-5508-5; 0-8232-6086-0; 0-8232-5509-3; 0-8232-5507-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787539003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II