1st Edition
Modern Orthodoxies Judaic Imaginative Journeys of the Twentieth Century
By Lisa Mulman
Copyright 2012
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
This study introduces a genuine, provocative religious vocabulary into the discourse on Modernist art and literature. Mulman looks at key texts and figures of the Modern period, including Henry Roth, Amedeo Modigliani, James Joyce, and Art Spiegelman, revealing a significant engagement with the rituals of Jewish observance and the structure of Talmudic interpretation. While critics often view the... Read more
Introduction: Liberating Captivity, The Sacred Language of the Secular 1. A Pious Translation: Call it Sleep and Henry Roth’s Single Sin 2. Converting Books into Bodies: Unorthodox Women and the Vanity of Art 3. An Inward Eye: Modigliani and the Burden of Moses 4. A Tale of Two Mice: The Graphic Escape of the Text Conclusion: Trajectories of Exile
Biography
Lisa Mulman is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Salem State College.
