Born under Auschwitz : melancholy traditions in postwar German literature / Mary Cosgrove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cosgrove, Mary, author.

Series:

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

Melancholy in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 234 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2014.

Contents:

Introduction: in defense of melancholy

The diseased imagination: perpetrator melancholy in Gunter Grass's Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke and Beim Hauten der Zwiebel

The disenchanted mind: victim melancholy in Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset and Masante

The feminine Holocaust: gender, memory, and melancholy in Peter Weiss's Die Asthetik 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 Vergangenheitsbewaltigung to Vergangenheitsbewirtschaftung in Iris Hanika's Das Eigentliche.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781571135568

1571135561

OCLC:

858896183

Publisher Number:

40023551733