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Subject(s)

• German literature—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Melancholy in literature [Browse]

Series

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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ISBN

• 9781571135568 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1571135561 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2013048915

OCLC

858896183

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