Modernist form and the myth of Jewification / Neil Levi.

"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,...

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Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:x, 261 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
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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.