Anti-Nazi Modernism The Challenges of Resistance in 1930s Fiction |
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| Spiro, Mia |
| Series title: | Cultural Expressions Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8101-2863-7 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2012 |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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Mia Spiro's
Anti-Nazi Modernism marks a major step forward in the critical debates over the relationship between modernist art and politics. Spiro analyzes the antifascist, and particularly anti-Nazi, narrative methods used by key British and American fiction writers in the 1930s. Focusing on works by Djuna Barnes, Christopher Isherwood, and Virginia Woolf, Spiro illustrates how these writers use an "anti-Nazi aesthetic" to target and expose Nazism's murderous discourse of...
More DescriptionMia Spiro's Anti-Nazi Modernism marks a major step forward in the critical debates over the relationship between modernist art and politics. Spiro analyzes the antifascist, and particularly anti-Nazi, narrative methods used by key British and American fiction writers in the 1930s. Focusing on works by Djuna Barnes, Christopher Isherwood, and Virginia Woolf, Spiro illustrates how these writers use an "anti-Nazi aesthetic" to target and expose Nazism's murderous discourse of exclusion. The three writers challenge the illusion of harmony and unity promoted by the Nazi spectacle in parades, film, rallies, and propaganda.