Word: countermyth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final chapter, Rosenberg discusses some modern trends and the relationship of the Jewish myth to anti-semitism. "The myth of Shylock has, as it has once before, given rise to the countermyth: the myth of the Jew as artist, as aesthete, as hypersensitive and anxious man; and in this mask he has engaged the attention of the great novelists of our century. For the creators of Swann (but also Bloch), of Leopold Bloom, Joseph K, as well as the recreator of the Biblical Joseph, the Jew has come to reflect increasingly the problems and pressures of Western...
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