Cosgrove Born under Auschwitz

Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-57113-889-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 145, 244 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Uncovers the literary traditions of melancholy that inform major works of postwar and contemporary German literature dealing with the Holocaust and the Nazi period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cosgrove, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Cosgrove Mary:
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).