The thesis of the paper is that Jews are represented in the poetry as the mimetic Other for identification, sponsoring fidelity to faith, the excluded Other allowing consolidation of faith, and the symbolic Other providing a discourse of history as theophany; in representation of the Jewish Other, the Anglo-Saxon textual community furthers the project of nation formation.
January 2004: Born in Brooklyn, New York, Professor Thormann teaches at College of Marin, Kentfield, California. Author of articles on the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Poems, Old English poetry, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and modern literature, most recently: "The Representation of the Shoah in Maus: History as Psychology," Res Publica 8/2 (2002): 123-139; and "The Ethical Subject of The God of Small Things," Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 8/2, (Fall 2003): 299-307. Coeditor of The Seminar of Moustafa Safouan (New York: Other Press, 2002). Current research: The Aesthetics of Old English poetry.
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