{"product_id":"precarious-figurations-zeno-sabine-ackermann-schlting-9783110736496","title":"Precarious Figurations: Shylock on the German Stage, 1920-2010","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003ePrecarious Figurations\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the reception of Shakespeare's \u003cem\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/em\u003e in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Germany. Looking at theatrical practices and critical or scholarly discourses from the Weimar Republic to the new millennium, the book explores why the play has served simultaneously as a vehicle for the actualization of anti-Semitic tropes and as a staging ground for the critical exposure of the very logic of anti-Semitism. In particular, the study investigates how the figure of Shylock has come to be both a device in and a stumbling block for attempts to bridge the fundamental rupture in civilization brought about by the Holocaust. The careful analysis of the German reception of \u003cem\u003eMerchant\u003c\/em\u003e, and in particular of the ways of doing and reading Shylock in the context of painful German, and German-Jewish, discourses of identity and remembrance, is designed to raise fundamental questions - questions concerning not only the staging of Jewishness, the tenacity of anti-Semitism and the difficulties of Holocaust remembrance, but also the general potentials and limitations of theatrical interventions into cultural conflicts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zeno Ackermann, Sabine Sch?ting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3110736497\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783110736496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.58d","brand":"Zeno Ackermann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45478884311295,"sku":"9783110736496","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5bfd2fb4-d99f-4868-906e-352d6df29713.jpg?v=1715935900","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/precarious-figurations-zeno-sabine-ackermann-schlting-9783110736496","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}