Annotated Bibliography On 'Modernism And Jewishness'
Maren Tova Linett , Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness
Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness by Maren Tova Linett
Review by: Maeera Y. Shreiber
Modern Philology, Vol. 109, No. 1 (August 2011), pp. E67-E69
Published by: The University of Chicago Press
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Maren Tova Linett. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. viiþ231.
This is a well-written, lucid, and imaginatively structured account of how
Anglo-American women novelists of the twentieth century deployed figures of Jewishness to achieve their own aesthetic objectives. Readers who have learned—from scholars such as Jonathan Freedman, Bryan Cheyette, and Marilyn Reizbaum—how to think about the complex role Jewishness plays in the making of modernist culture and aesthetics will welcome this study by Maren Tova Linett. Over the last decade, the role of Jewishness in the making of modernism has engendered a great deal of critical attention.
The nature of this discussion has been notably wide-ranging, as some critics have devoted themselves to exploring the aesthetic implications of antiSemitism in the works of T. S. Eliot and Henry James, while others have considered how someone like James Joyce takes up the Jew as a liberating figure of ‘‘otherness.’’ And finally there are those critics who consider
Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness by Maren Tova Linett
Review by: Maeera Y. Shreiber
Modern Philology, Vol. 109, No. 1 (August 2011), pp. E67-E69
Published by: The University of Chicago Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/660813 .
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Maren Tova Linett. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. viiþ231.
This is a well-written, lucid, and imaginatively structured account of how
Anglo-American women novelists of the twentieth century deployed figures of Jewishness to achieve their own aesthetic objectives. Readers who have learned—from scholars such as Jonathan Freedman, Bryan Cheyette, and Marilyn Reizbaum—how to think about the complex role Jewishness plays in the making of modernist culture and aesthetics will welcome this study by Maren Tova Linett. Over the last decade, the role of Jewishness in the making of modernism has engendered a great deal of critical attention.
The nature of this discussion has been notably wide-ranging, as some critics have devoted themselves to exploring the aesthetic implications of antiSemitism in the works of T. S. Eliot and Henry James, while others have considered how someone like James Joyce takes up the Jew as a liberating figure of ‘‘otherness.’’ And finally there are those critics who consider