ISBN:
081475063X
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 384 S.
Year of publication:
1993
Series Statement:
Literature and psychoanalysis 2
Series Statement:
Literature and psychoanalysis
DDC:
820.9/9287
Keywords:
Greene, Graham 〈1904-1991〉 - Personnages
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Greene, Graham 〈1904-〉 - Characters
;
Lewis, Wyndham 〈1882-1957〉 - Characters
;
Lewis, Wyndham 〈1882-1957〉 - Personnages
;
Williams, Charles 〈1886-1945〉 - Characters
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Williams, Charles 〈1886-1945〉 - Personnages
;
Greene, Graham 〈1904-1991〉 Characters
;
Jews
;
Lewis, Wyndham 〈1882-1957〉 Characters
;
Jews
;
Williams, Charles 〈1886-1945〉 Characters
;
Jews
;
Greene, Graham
;
Williams, Charles
;
Lewis, Wyndham
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
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Geschichte 1920-1940
;
Antisemitisme
;
Juifs - Dans la littérature
;
Littérature anglaise - 20e siècle - Histoire et critique
;
Psychanalyse et littérature
;
Vrouwenhaat
;
Juden
;
English literature History and criticism 20th century
;
Jews in literature
;
Metaphor
;
Projection (Psychology) in literature
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Psychoanalysis and literature
;
Women in literature
;
Soziale Situation
;
Antisemitismus
;
Frauenfeindlichkeit
;
Juden
;
Frau
;
Juden
;
Großbritannien
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Lewis, Wyndham 1882-1957
;
Frauenfeindlichkeit
;
Antisemitismus
;
Williams, Charles 1886-1945
;
Frauenfeindlichkeit
;
Antisemitismus
;
Greene, Graham 1904-1991
;
Frauenfeindlichkeit
;
Antisemitismus
;
Großbritannien
;
Soziale Situation
;
Juden
;
Geschichte 1920-1940
;
Greene, Graham 1904-1991
;
Frau
;
Williams, Charles 1886-1945
;
Frau
;
Lewis, Wyndham 1882-1957
;
Frau
;
Greene, Graham 1904-1991
;
Juden
;
Williams, Charles 1886-1945
;
Juden
;
Lewis, Wyndham 1882-1957
;
Juden
Abstract:
Biases held by artists have been a constant source of controversy in appraisals of their works, most recently in critiques of such authors as H. L. Mencken and Paul de Man. Should the belief systems of these thinkers be taken into account in assessing the value of the works which they made public? Andrea Freud Loewenstein here undertakes to address this crucial issue. At the heart of her study is an examination of the figures of Jew and woman in the works of three British male authors written between 1929 and 1945. While instances of misogyny and anti-Semitism were not uncommon in the literature of the period, Loewenstein argues that a hatred and fear of women was often the dominating preoccupation of their work, from which stemmed the intertwined and closely related loathing of Jews. Basing her interpretations on biographical information and on the close analysis of a large body of fiction by each author, Loewenstein reconstructs the psychological system through which each one envisions the world, showing how Jews and women function in their texts, and in each individual psychopathology, as a representation of the Other. Ranging far beyond a narrow study of three authors, Loewenstein situates the works studied in the context of the history of Jews in Britain, concentrating on recent historical scholarship on Britain and the Jews in the 1930s. She questions the widespread belief that the British government was a friend to the Jews and shows, as evident in the double-talk and hypocrisy behind some British governmental policies, that Britain instead actively collaborated in the Jews' destruction. To provide a greater context for her argument, Loewenstein presents a timeline of the history of the Jews in Britain. Firmly grounded in a range of disciplines, Loathsome Jews and Engulfing Women is a masterful blend of history, psychology, and literary criticism.
Note:
Teilw. zugl.: Brighton, Univ. of Sussex, Diss.
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