Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness

Klappentext An analysis of the cultural meanings of Jewishness in the work of Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and others. Zusammenfassung Maren Linett analyzes the meanings and motifs that Virginia Woolf! Jean Rhys! Sylvia Townsend Warner! Dorothy Richardson! and Djuna Barnes associate with Jewishness. By examining the political and literary power of Semitic discourse! Linett fills a significant gap in the account of the cultural and literary forces that shaped modernism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Imagined Jews and the shape of feminist modernism; 1. 'Strip each statement of its money motive': Jews and the ideal of disinterested art in Warner, Rhys, and Woolf; 2. Transformations of supersessionism in Woolf and Richardson; 3. Adding bathrooms, fomenting revolutions: modernity and Jewishness in Woolf and Warner; 4. The race must go on: gender, Jewishness, and racial continuity in Richardson and Barnes; 5. The 'No time region': time, trauma, and Jewishness in Barnes and Rhys; 6. Metatextual Jewishness: shaping feminist modernism; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Maren Tova Linett, Maren Tova (Assistant Professor Linett, Linett Maren Tova
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521184274
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18427-4
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Jewish Studies, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities