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"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"--
Modernism (Art) --- Art criticism. --- Antisemitism. --- 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.
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Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought deals with the concept of exile on many levels-from the literal to the metaphorical. It combines analyses of predominantly Jewish authors of Central Europe of the twentieth century who are not usually connected, including Kafka, Kraus, Levi, Lustig, Wiesel, and Frankl. It follows the typical routes that exiled writers took, from East to West and later often as far as America. The concept and forms of exile are analyzed from many different points of view and great importance is devoted especially to the forms of inner exile. In Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought, Bronislava Volková, an exile herself and thus intimately familiar with the topic through her own experience, develops a unique typology of exile that will enrich the field of intellectual and literary history of twentieth-century Europe and America.
Alienation (Philosophy) in literature. --- Central European literature --- Exile (Punishment) in literature. --- Exiles in literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish. --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism. --- Alma Mahler. --- Arnost Lustig. --- Arthur Schnitzler. --- Bruno Schulz. --- Central Europe. --- Egon Hostovsky. --- Elie Wiesel. --- Expulsion. --- Franz Kafka. --- Franz Werfel. --- Hermann Broch. --- Hermann Ungar. --- Holocaust. --- Hugo von Hofmannsthal. --- Jewish history. --- Jiri Weil. --- Joseph Roth. --- Judaism. --- Karl Kraus. --- Ladislav Fuks. --- Marcel Proust. --- Max Nordau. --- Peter Weiss. --- Primo Levi. --- Robert Musil. --- Saul Friedlander. --- Shoah. --- Sholem Aleichem. --- Sigmund Freud. --- Stefan Zweig. --- Theodor Herzl. --- Wandering. --- aesthetics. --- cultural studies. --- diaspora. --- exile. --- gender. --- identity. --- literature. --- oppression. --- philosophy. --- twentieth century.
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