{"product_id":"precarious-figurations-9783110736496","title":"Precarious Figurations","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","brand":"Zeno Ackermann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48262147178747,"sku":"9783110736496","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_61daf615-d31d-4bbf-a553-89ebc18ff1fb.jpg?v=1774456817","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/precarious-figurations-9783110736496","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}