Modernist Form and the Myth of Jewification

Contents

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Phobic Reading, Modernist Form, and the Figure of the Antisemite 1 p a r t i : m o d e r n i s t f o r m a s j u d a i z a t i o n 1. Genealogies: Judaization, Wagner, Nordau 23 2. Jews, Art, and History: The Nazi Exhibition of “Degenerate Art” as Historicopolitical Spectacle 50 3. Fanatical Abstraction: Wyndham Lewis’s Critique of Modernist Form as Judaization in Time and Western Man 90 p a r t i i : m o d e r n i s t f o r m a n d t h e a n t i s e m i t i c i m a g i n a t i o n 4. Straw Men: Projection, Personification, and Narrative Form in Ulysses 121 5. Images of the Bilderverbot: Adorno, Antisemitism, and the Enemies of Modernism 139 6. The Labor of Late Modernist Poetics: Beckett after Céline 170 Notes 201 Bibliography 235 Index 247 C o n t e n t s ...