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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
[2017]
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.