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Bestiarium Judaicum : Unnatural Histories of the Jews /

Through close textual analysis, detailed historical contextualization, and critical animal theory Bestiarium Judaicum examines how and to what ends German-Jewish writers (including Freud, Heine, and Kafka) drew upon the vast inventory of verbal and visual images of nonhuman animals disseminated for...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Geller, Jay, 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, [2017]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction. A Field Guide to the Bestiarium Judaicum; 1. "O beastly Jews": A Brief History of an (Un)Natural History; 2. Name that Varmint: From Gregor to Josephine; 3. (Con)Versions of Cats and Mice and Other Mouse Traps; 4. "If you could see her through my eyes . . .": Semitic Simiantics; 5. Italian Lizards and Literary Politics I: Carrying the Torch and Getting Singed; 6. Italian Lizards and Literary Politics II: Deer I Say It; 7. The Raw and the Cooked in the Old/New World, or Talk to the Animals.
  • 8. Dogged by Destiny: "Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom quails sit non navit"Afterword. "It's clear as the light of day": The Shoah and the Human/Animal Great Divide; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Index.