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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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