Uncovers the literary traditions of melancholy that inform major works of postwar and contemporary German literature dealing with the Holocaust and the Nazi period.
Uncovers the literary traditions of melancholy that inform major works of postwar and contemporary German literature dealing with the Holocaust and the Nazi period.
Mary Cosgrove is Professor in German at Trinity College Dublin. Her research and teaching foci include Holocaust memory and representation in literature and culture; German Jewish writing; the cultural history and theory of melancholia and boredom in European letters; and literary and narrative economics. Key publications include Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature (Camden House, 2014); German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse since 1990 (Camden House, 2006; paperback 2010).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: In Defense of Melancholy The Diseased Imagination: Perpetrator Melancholy in Günter Grass's Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke and Beim Häuten der Zwiebel The Disenchanted Mind: Victim Melancholy in Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset and Masante The Feminine Holocaust: Gender, Melancholy, and Memory in Peter Weiss's Die Ästhetik des Widerstands From the Weltschmerz of the Postwar Penitent to Capitalism and the "Racial Century": Melancholy Diversity in W. G. Sebald's Work Epilogue: Death of the Male Melancholy Genius: From Vergangenheitsbewältigung to Vergangenheitsbewirtschaftung in Iris Hanika's Das Eigentliche Bibliography Index
Introduction: In Defense of Melancholy The Diseased Imagination: Perpetrator Melancholy in Günter Grass's Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke and Beim Häuten der Zwiebel The Disenchanted Mind: Victim Melancholy in Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset and Masante The Feminine Holocaust: Gender, Melancholy, and Memory in Peter Weiss's Die Ästhetik des Widerstands From the Weltschmerz of the Postwar Penitent to Capitalism and the "Racial Century": Melancholy Diversity in W. G. Sebald's Work Epilogue: Death of the Male Melancholy Genius: From Vergangenheitsbewältigung to Vergangenheitsbewirtschaftung in Iris Hanika's Das Eigentliche Bibliography Index
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