Gertrude Stein and the Making of Jewish Modernism - Amy Feinstein

Descriere Gertrude Stein and the Making of Jewish Modernism - Amy Feinstein

\nChallenging the assumption \nthat modernist writer Gertrude Stein seldom integrated her Jewish identity and \nheritage into her work, this book uncovers Stein's constant and varied writing \nabout Jewish topics throughout her career. Amy Feinstein argues that Judaism \nwas central to Stein's ideas about modernity, showing how Stein connects the \nmodernist era to the Jewish experience. \n \n\n \n \n Combing through Stein's scholastic writings, drafting \nnotebooks, and literary works, Feinstein analyzes references to Judaism that \nhave puzzled scholars. She reveals the never-before-discussed influence of \nMatthew Arnold as well as a hidden Jewish framework in Stein's epic novel The Making of Americans. In Stein's \nexperimental voices poems, \nFeinstein identifies an explicitly Jewish vocabulary that expresses themes of \nmarriage, nationalism, and Zionism. She also shows how Wars I Have Seen, written in Vichy France during World War II, \ncompares the experience of wartime occupation with the historic persecution of \nJews. \n\n \n \n\n Affirming \nthe importance of Jewish identity and modernist style to Gertrude Stein's \nlegacy as a writer, this book radically changes the way we read and appreciate \nStein's work. \n\n

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University Press Of Florida

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9780813068756

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1

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