Lycanthropy in German Literature

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.

Introduction 1. The Wolfman between History, Myth and Biopolitics 2. Carnivalizing the Ban: The Schelm's Lycanthropy in the Age of Melancholy 3. Sexual Predator or Liberator: Wolves and Witches in Romanticism 4. Gypsies and Jews as Wolves in Realist Fiction 5. From Wolf Man to Bug Man: Freud, Hesse, Kafka 6. Hitler the Wolf and Literary Parodies after 1945 Notes Works Cited Index