| #4135732 in Books | 2009-04-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x.67 x7.00l,1.40 | File type: PDF | 240 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A mixed bag|By Curious|As an academic work, the book achieves what it has to. It deals with an area of less well-documented literature and allied works with reasonable scholarly detail. One might hope that the author could achieve what she does with a bit less jargon and a more conversational style. For the reader who can wallow through the often drudge of repetition|||“Gillman’s book is as rich and paradoxical as Jewish assimilation itself, for the author is at once telling a particularly Jewish and a larger European story of aesthetic, cultural, and sometimes even political engagement with tradition.”|&m
In Viennese Jewish Modernism, Abigail Gillman challenges the conventional understanding of modernism as simply a break from tradition. Until recently, the study of Jewish modernism has centered on questions of Jewish and non-Jewish identity, generally ignoring the role Judaism played in the formulation of European modernism as a whole. By focusing on the works of major Viennese authors and thinkers—Freud, Hofmannsthal, Beer-Hofmann, and Schnitzler&mdash...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Viennese Jewish Modernism: Freud, Hofmannsthal, Beer-Hofmann, and Schnitzler (Refiguring Modernism) | Abigail Gillman. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
