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«Scorned My Nation»

A Comparison of Translations of The Merchant of Venice into German, Hebrew, and Yiddish

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

In this book, the German history of highlights the Central European detour that Shakespearean reception underwent in Hebrew and Yiddish. Such a detour, with its various discomforts, is used to penetrate a current historical and political historiography, rendering Shylock a character that remembers various languages and locations, as well as multiple alternatives for political self-definition. This complex Shakespearean character speaks in many voices and for various purposes and is the only character that can provide the missing link between two contradictory Jewish stereotypes – a persecuted and victimized underling and a merciless and violent plaintive, holding out his knife to draw blood.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-0-8204-5798-7 / 978-0820457987 / 9780820457987

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 14.03.2003

Seiten: 250

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Dror Abend-David

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