Born under Auschwitz : melancholy traditions in postwar German literature /

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cosgrove, Mary (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2014.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Temas:
1900-1999
German literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Melancholy in literature.
Politics and literature > Germany > History > 20th century.
Popular literature > Germany > History and criticism.
Littérature allemande > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Mélancolie dans la littérature.
Politique et littérature > Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Paralittérature > Allemagne > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
German literature
Melancholy in literature
Politics and literature
Popular literature
Germany
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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