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Lycanthropy in German Literature

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Peter Arnds

    1. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature (PMEL)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Peter Arnds
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Wolfman between History, Myth and Biopolitics

    • Peter Arnds
    Pages 11-24

  4. Carnivalizing the Ban

    • Peter Arnds
    Pages 25-46

  5. Sexual Predator or Liberator

    • Peter Arnds
    Pages 47-68

  6. Gypsies and Jews as Wolves in Realist Fiction

    • Peter Arnds
    Pages 69-96

  7. From Wolf Man to Bug Man

    • Peter Arnds
    Pages 97-121

  8. Hitler the Wolf and Literary Parodies after 1945

    • Peter Arnds
    Pages 122-150

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 151-207
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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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  • Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

    Peter Arnds

About the author

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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