Lycanthropy in German 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.

Author: Peter Arnds
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/07/2015
Pages: 207
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781137541628

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.