Born under Auschwitz : melancholy traditions in postwar German literature /: melancholy traditions in postwar German literature. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mary Cosgrove.
• Authors: Cosgrove, Mary
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, New York : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 234 pages)
• Subjects: 830.9; German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Melancholy in literature; Politics and literature -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Popular literature -- Germany -- History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German; German literature; Melancholy in literature; Politics and literature; Popular literature; Germany; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781571138897; 1571138897; 1306553172; 9781306553179
• Related ISBNs: 9781571135568; 1571135561
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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