Apes, Great Apes, and Mankind in 19th and early 20th Century German Literature

Since the Middle Ages, apes have functioned as mirrors of humans. And to this day, we find that especially great apes act as unsettling doubles and distorted images of the human in literature and film, marking the porous border between the animalistic and the human. This article analyzes the depicti...

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Main Author: Tanja Nusser
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg 2015-07-01
Series:Recherches Germaniques
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/rg/888