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Author:

Pines, Noam, 1976- author.

Title:

The infrahuman : animality in modern Jewish literature / Noam Pines.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xxx, 169 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Jewish literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Jewish literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Animals in literature.
Animals in literature.
Jewish literature.
1800-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Between figure and creature -- Life in the valley: the Jewish dog in Heinrich Heine's Prinzessin Sabbat -- A radical advocacy: suffering Jews and animals in S.Y. Abramovitsh's di Kliatshe -- Into the bowels of the earth: prophecy and animality in the poetry of Hayim Nachman Bialik and Uri Zvi Greenberg -- At home in a distorted life: the dog as a constellation in the work of Franz Kafka -- After the Holocaust: responses to the infrahuman in the works of S.Y. Agnon and Paul Celan.

Series:

Suny series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture

ISBN:

1438470681
9781438470689
1438470673
9781438470672

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1002302840

LCCN:

2017040576

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)