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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Book Title: Lycanthropy in German Literature
Authors: Peter Arnds
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137541635
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54162-8Published: 07 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54163-5Published: 04 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2634-6478
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6486
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 207
Topics: European Literature, Literary History, Literary Theory, History of Germany and Central Europe, Twentieth-Century Literature, Cultural Theory

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

The Wolfman between History, Myth and Biopolitics

Carnivalizing the Ban

Sexual Predator or Liberator

Gypsies and Jews as Wolves in Realist Fiction

From Wolf Man to Bug Man

Hitler the Wolf and Literary Parodies after 1945

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