Comparative Literature 214 - LITERARY ANTI-SEMITISM

How can we tell whether a literary work is anti-Semitically coded? What are the religious, social, cultural factors that shape imaginings of Jewishness? How does the Holocaust affect the way we look at constructions of the Jew today? A selection of seminal theoretical texts; examples mostly from literature but also from opera and cinema. Shakespeare, Marlow, Cervantes, G.E. Lessing, Grimm Brothers, Balzac, Dickens, Wagner, T. Mann, V. Harlan; S. Friedlander; M. Gelber, S. Gilman, G. Langmuir, Y.H. Yerushalmi.