Lycanthropy in German Literature

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. The Wolfman between History, Myth and Biopolitics2. Carnivalizing the Ban: The Schelm's Lycanthropy in the Age of Melancholy3. Sexual Predator or Liberator: Wolves and Witches in Romanticism4. Gypsies and Jews as Wolves in Realist Fiction5. From Wolf Man to Bug Man: Freud, Hesse, Kafka6. Hitler the Wolf and Literary Parodies after 1945NotesWorks CitedIndex

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• Authors: Peter Arnds
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.10.2015
• EAN: 9781137541628
• ISBN: 978-1-137-54162-8
• No. of pages: 215
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature; Palgrave Studies in Modern Eur; Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature; Palgrave Studies in Modern Eur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Cultural Studies, European History, Cultural Theory, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Europe, Central—History, History of Germany and Central Europe, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature—Philosophy