By Lisa Mulman
This learn introduces a real, provocative spiritual vocabulary into the discourse on Modernist artwork and literature. Mulman appears to be like at key texts and figures of the trendy interval, together with Henry Roth, Amedeo Modigliani, James Joyce, and artwork Spiegelman, revealing an important engagement with the rituals of Jewish observance and the constitution of Talmudic interpretation. whereas critics usually view the formal experimentation of excessive Modernism as a thorough departure from traditional ideals, this ebook indicates that those features of Modernist paintings are deeply entwined with, and indebted to, the very traditions that they declare to be writing opposed to. As such, the publication deals a different and really multidisciplinary method of Modernist reports and a cogent research of the ways that spirituality informs creative production.
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