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Born Under Auschwitz
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Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature
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Artikel-Nr:
9781571135568
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.04.2014
Seiten:
244
Autor:
Mary Cosgrove
Gewicht:
517 g
Format:
241x159x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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 literaryand narrative economics. Key publications include Born under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature (Camden House2014); German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse since 1990 (Camden House, 2006; paperback 2010).
Uncovers the literary traditions of melancholy that inform major works of postwar and contemporary German literature dealing with the Holocaust and the Nazi period.
Introduction: In Defense of MelancholyThe Diseased Imagination: Perpetrator Melancholy in Günter Grass's Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke and Beim Häuten der ZwiebelThe Disenchanted Mind: Victim Melancholy in Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset and MasanteThe Feminine Holocaust: Gender, Melancholy, and Memory in Peter Weiss's Die Ästhetik des WiderstandsFrom the Weltschmerz of the Postwar Penitent to Capitalism and the "Racial Century": Melancholy Diversity in W. G. Sebald's WorkEpilogue: Death of the Male Melancholy Genius: From Vergangenheitsbewältigung to Vergangenheitsbewirtschaftung in Iris Hanika's Das EigentlicheBibliographyIndex