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  • Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin  (3)
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  • 1
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    Inventing William of Norwich : Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150–1200 (2022)
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
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    ISBN: 9780812298536
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 p.) , 3 bw halftones
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: The Middle Ages Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Blurton, Heather Inventing William of Norwich
    RVK:
    HH 4054
    Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval ; De vita et passione Sancti Willelmi Martyris Norwicensis ; Antisemitismus
    Abstract: William of Norwich is the name of a young boy purported to have been killed by Jews in or about 1144, thus becoming the victim of the first recorded case of such a ritual murder in Western Europe and a seminal figure in the long history of antisemitism. His story is first told in Thomas of Monmouth's The Life and Miracles of William of Norwich, a work that elaborates the bizarre allegation, invented in twelfth-century England, that Jews kidnapped Christian children and murdered them in memory and mockery of the crucifixion of Christ.In Inventing William of Norwich Heather Blurton resituates Thomas's account by offering the first full analysis of it as a specifically literary work. The second half of the twelfth century was a time of great literary innovation encompassing an efflorescence of saints' lives and historiography, as well as the emergence of vernacular romance, Blurton observes. She examines The Life and Miracles within the framework of these new textual developments and alongside innovations in liturgical and devotional practices to argue that the origin of the ritual murder accusation is imbricated as much in literary culture as it is in the realities of Christian-Jewish relations or the emergence of racially based discourses of antisemitism. Resisting the urge to interpret this first narrative of the blood libel with the hindsight knowledge of later developments, she considers only the period from about 1150-1200. In so doing, Blurton redirects critical attention away from the social and economic history of the ritual murder accusation to the textual genres and tastes that shaped its forms and themes and provided its immediate context of reception. Thomas of Monmouth's narrative in particular, and the ritual murder accusation more generally, were strongly shaped by literary convention
    Note: In English
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    SUB Hamburg
    Potsdam University
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  • 2
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    Precarious figurations : Shylock on the German stage, 1920-2010 (2019)
    Berlin : De Gruyter
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    ISBN: 9783110617924
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 246 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2019
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ackermann, Zeno, 1968 - Precarious figurations
    DDC: 822.3/3
    RVK:
    HI 3391
    Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 The merchant of Venice ; Shylock ; Rezeption ; Deutschland ; Inszenierung ; Geschichte 1920-2010
    Abstract: Precarious Figurations focuses on the reception of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Germany. Looking at theatrical practices and critical or scholarly discourses from the Weimar Republic to the new millennium, the book explores why the play has served simultaneously as a vehicle for the actualization of anti-Semitic tropes and as a staging ground for the critical exposure of the very logic of anti-Semitism. In particular, the study investigates how the figure of Shylock has come to be both a device in and a stumbling block for attempts to bridge the fundamental rupture in civilization brought about by the Holocaust. The careful analysis of the German reception of Merchant, and in particular of the ways of doing and reading Shylock in the context of painful German, and German-Jewish, discourses of identity and remembrance, is designed to raise fundamental questions – questions concerning not only the staging of Jewishness, the tenacity of anti-Semitism and the difficulties of Holocaust remembrance, but also the general potentials and limitations of theatrical interventions into cultural conflicts
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Figuring Identity: Ruptures and Continuities from the Reinhardt Era to the Early Federal Republic (1905–1957) -- 2. Staging Remembrance: Refigurations on the West German Stage (1960–1990) -- 3. Inheriting a Classic: Configurations of Merchant in the German Democratic Republic (1949–1990) -- 4. After Remembrance? – Shylock in the Reunified Germany (1990–2010) -- 5. “Forced Companionability”: Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Stage Productions of The Merchant of Venice in Germany and Austria (1933–2010) -- Index
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
    DOI: 10.1515/9783110617924
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  • 3
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    Unfit : Jewish degeneration and modernism (2019)
    London : Bloomsbury Publishing | New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic
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    ISBN: 9781350098978 , 9781350098954
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 249 pages) , illustrations
    Year of publication: 2019
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Reizbaum, Marilyn, 1953 - Unfit
    DDC: 808.8/0112
    RVK:
    HM 1091
    Keywords: Jews Identity ; Motion pictures and the arts ; Modernism (Aesthetics) ; Degeneration in literature ; Modernism (Literature) ; Jews Intellectual life ; Degeneration Social aspects ; History ; Electronic books ; Juden ; Geistesleben ; Gesellschaft ; Degeneration ; Degeneration ; Literatur ; Fotografie ; Degeneration ; Juden ; Identität ; Geschichte ; Joyce, James 1882-1941 Ulysses ; Barker, Pat 1943- Regeneration
    Abstract: "An obsession with 'degeneration' was a central preoccupation of modernist culture at the start of the 20th century. Less attention has been paid to the fact that many of the key thinkers in 'degeneration theory' - including Cesare Lombroso, Max Nordau, and Magnus Hirschfeld - were Jewish. Unfit: Jewish Degeneration and Modernism is the first in-depth study of the Jewish cultural roots of this strand of modernist thought and its legacies for modernist and contemporary culture. Marilyn Reizbaum explores how literary works from Bram Stoker's Dracula, through James Joyce's Ulysses to Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy, the crime movies of Mervyn LeRoy, and the photography of Claude Cahun and Adi Nes manifest engagements with ideas of degeneration across the arts of the 20th century. This is a major new study that sheds new light on modernist thought, art and culture"--Bloomsbury Collections
    Abstract: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Avatars -- 2. Bad seeds: Mervyn LeRoy's American crime -- 3. Fitness movements: literary degeneration and Jewish muscle in Joyce's -- 4. Ulysses and Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy -- 5. Sexology's photoshop -- Coda: Otto Weininger and the Jewish joke -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    DOI: 10.5040/9781350098978
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