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The Golem redux : from Prague to post-Holocaust fiction / Elizabeth R. Baer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baer, Elizabeth Roberts.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Golem in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Traces the history of the golem legend and its appropriations in German texts and film as well as in post-Holocaust Jewish-American fiction, comics, graphic novels, and television.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Golem Redux: Variations on the Golem Legend in Jewish Tradition
- 2 German-Language Appropriations: The Golem Runs Amok
- 3 Traditional Retellings of the Golem Legend
- 4 The Comics Connection
- 5 Golems to the Rescue
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-215) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814336274
- 0814336272
- OCLC:
- 794415463
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