Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) 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, melancholy, and memory 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.
Series:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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