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 from literature, including the graphic novel, and from cinema. Shakespeare, G.E. Lessing, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Heinrich Heine, Edith Wharton, Thomas Mann, Philip Roth, Will Eisner, David Lean, Carol Reed, Roman Polanski, Dani Levy.