Lycanthropy in German Literature

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-54162-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 207 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 3747 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arnds, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

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.