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212 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780472117598
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 16 December 2010
Description
The Hulk, Superman, the Terminator; they are all modern popular culture echoes of the golem, that mystical, artificial man of legend, a sort of friendly Jewish version of Frankenstein's monster. By focusing on the golem in key literary texts and f...
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212 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780472117598
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 16 December 2010
Description
The Hulk, Superman, the Terminator; they are all modern popular culture echoes of the golem, that mystical, artificial man of legend, a sort of friendly Jewish version of Frankenstein's monster. By focusing on the golem in key literary texts and f...