Jewish Geographies: Jabotinsky and Modernism
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between aesthetic modernism and collectivist nationalism is explored in the context of early European literary modernisms and their associated socio-political contexts, and the authors conclude that scholars can profitably locate Jabotinsky's creative output of the 1920s within the nexus of early aesthetic modernist and collectivism.
Abstract: Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky's texts of the 1920s offer compelling examples of the tensions endemic to aesthetic modernism and inherent in Jewish nationalist discourse during the interwar period. This essay discusses Jabotinsky's Atlas (1925), his unproduced film script A Galilean Romance (1924–1926), and his anthemic poem "Two Banks Has the Jordan" (1929). While the ideological value of the works examined is self-evident, the artistic features of Jabotinsky's work have received scant attention. This essay reveals Jabotinsky's indebtedness to themes and techniques identified with early European literary modernisms and their associated socio-political contexts. The article concludes that scholars can profitably locate Jabotinsky's creative output of the 1920s within the nexus of early aesthetic modernism and collectivist nationalism.
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TL;DR: The authors make an extremely valuable, clearly argued, and firmly evidenced contribution to our knowledge of Wilhelmian political history, and make a strong contribution to the understanding of German domestic politics in the brief hiatus between the 1912 elections and the July Crisis.
Abstract: Republic (pp. 417, 419). These conventional formulations unfortunately halt the analysis before the wider-ranging and more penetrating discussion Tober's materials might have allowed, because the impasse of Germany's domestic politics in the brief hiatus between the 1912 elections and the July Crisis remains badly in need of some serious and imaginative analysis. But aside from this foreshortening, which bespeaks perhaps a wider intellectual caution constraining the more ambitious implications of Tober's account, this book makes an extremely valuable, clearly argued, and firmly evidenced contribution to our knowledge of Wilhelmian political history.
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02 Aug 2004
TL;DR: The boundary and its role in historical political existence is discussed in this paper, where the delimitation of the country and the end of the Ottoman empire are discussed. But the boundary is not considered in this paper.
Abstract: Introduction: the boundary and its role in historical-political existence 1. The delimitation of the country and the end of the Ottoman empire 2. The allocation stage: world War I and the division of the Middle East 3. The southern boundary during the British Empire 4. The northern boundary: from allocation to delimitation 5. The northern boundary: demarcation and administration 6. The eastern boundary 7. Te partition plans, 1937-1947 Conclusion
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TL;DR: The Cinquantenario Garibaldi as discussed by the authors celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Italy's most popular Risorgimental hero, Giuseppe Garbaldi, with a number of commemorative events organized throughout the year and the involvement and sponsorship of the fascist government.
Abstract: garibaldino (the Garibaldian year). The commemoration of the Cinquantenario Garibaldino, the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Italy’s most popular Risorgimental hero, Giuseppe Garibaldi, assumed proportions unprecedented in terms of both the number of commemorative events organized throughout the year, and the involvement and sponsorship of the fascist government.’ As part of the official programme of the Cinquantenario, the government financed a ’Garibaldian Exhibition’ to be mounted in the prestigious Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, the publication of the first national edition of Garibaldi’s writings, and a special issue of commemorative stamps; it decreed a parliamentary commemoration before a plenary session of the two chambers, a day of celebration in all schools and universities, and another day to be set aside for public orations by prominent members of the Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF) in the major squares of all Italian cities; in addition, it organized a popular pilgrimage to Garibaldi’s tomb in Caprera, and a ’Garibaldian’ lottery. Undoubtly, however, the clou of the Cinquantenario was a three-day ’National Commemoration’ which constituted the regime’s first elaborate attempt to foster the development of a ’fascist’ consciousness of the recent national past. This unusually long commemorative spectacle was executed in three public ceremonies, all of which were exhaustively documented by the news media, and consciously orchestrated for that purpose.2 First was the transfer of the remains of Garibaldi’s first wife, the Brazilian Creole Anita Riviero, from Genoa to Rome, on 1 June; second, the entombment of Anita’s remains in the base of a monument built in her memory on top of the Roman hill, Gianicolo, on 2 June; and, finally, the official inauguration of the monument by Mussolini on 4 June.3 Notwithstanding the
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TL;DR: A detailed analysis of Belyi's prose works, including extensive reading of Kant and Gogol and its particular effect upon his theory and practice, and locating him firmly in his own Russian context is given in this article.
Abstract: Andrei Belyi (1880-1934) is generally regarded as the greatest and most influential prose-writer to emerge from the Symbolist movement in Russia at the turn of the twentieth century. His early prose 'symphonies' and novels are often compared with the work of such European 'modernists' as Joyce and Proust. This is the first book to attempt a systematic analysis of the place of Belyi's fiction within the modernist prose tradition in Russia; a tradition which has been obscured by decades of ideological distortion. Paradoxically, Belyi himself, a mystic by nature who sought only transcendent certainty from the flux of experience, would have been reluctant to claim this tradition as his own. Keys demonstrates the inadequacy of the various 'isms' (Symbolism, Impressionism, etc.) which have until recently bedevilled most critical attempts to sort out the prose of the period, giving a comprehensive overview of Belyi criticism from both within and outside the Soviet Union. The book includes a detailed analysis of Belyi's prose works, paying keen attention to his philosophical and literary influences, including extensive reading of Kant and Gogol and its particular effect upon his theory and practice, and locating him firmly in his own Russian context. Sections devoted to Belyi's greatest novel, Petersburg, and other works, such as The Silver Dove and Dramatic Symphony, analyse Belyi's use of structure and plot, leitmotifs and acoustic symbolism. The book marks Belyi's attempts to reconcile the Symbolist vision of the writer as having revelatory mystical authority with the concept of 'perspectivism', implied author, narrator and character offering a number of different voices which cannot claim cognitive authority beyond the fictional context in which they occur.
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19 Jun 2014TL;DR: In this paper, the Dandy, the Mystic, and the Tonalists: Italian Modernist Painting and the Male Body, and a glimpse through an Interstice Caught: Fascism and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedescos Calamus Songs.
Abstract: Introduction: Beyond Virility, Chapter 1. Fascism, Modernism, and the Contradictions of Capitalism, Chapter 2. Pirandello Fascista? Modernism and The Theater of Masculinity Chapter 3. The Dandy, the Mystic, and the Tonalists: Italian Modernist Painting and the Male Body Chapter 4. "A Glimpse Through an Interstice Caught: Fascism and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedescos Calamus Songs" Chapter 5. Giorgio Bassani and Italian "Queers" of the 1930s" Conclusion: "Beyond" Fascism?
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