Lycanthropy in German Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Del i serien Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature

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Beskrivning

Lycanthropy in German Literature argues that as a symbol of both power and parasitism, the human wolf of the Germanic Middle Ages is iconic to the representation of the persecution of undesirables in the German cultural imagination from the early modern age to the post-war literary scene.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-10-07
Mått:140 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:392 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
Antal sidor:207
Upplaga:2015
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137541628

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Peter Arnds directs the postgraduate programmes of Comparative Literature and Literary Translation, and teaches German and Italian literature at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. He is a Fellow and the author of books on Wilhelm Raabe and Charles Dickens, and on Günter Grass. He is also a literary translator and has published short stories and poems.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction 1. The Wolfman between History, Myth and Biopolitics 2. Carnivalizing the Ban: The Schelm's Lycanthropy in the Age of Melancholy 3. Sexual Predator or Liberator: Wolves and Witches in Romanticism 4. Gypsies and Jews as Wolves in Realist Fiction 5. From Wolf Man to Bug Man: Freud, Hesse, Kafka 6. Hitler the Wolf and Literary Parodies after 1945 Notes Works Cited Index