Cosgrove / Richards Edinburgh German Yearbook 6

Sadness and Melancholy in German-Language Literature and Culture
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-57113-842-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 6, 198 Seiten

Reihe: Edinburgh German Yearbook

Investigates the function and meaning of sadness in German, Austrian, and Swiss literature and culture from the 18th century to the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cosgrove, Mary

Richards, Anna

Weitere Mitwirkende

Meyer, Franziska

Hobus, Jens

Kaminski, Johannes

Wozonig, Karin S

Cosgrove, Mary

Brandt, Per

Damrau, Peter

Millington, Richard

Joy, Steve

Frank, Svenja

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Sadness and Melancholy in German-Language Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present: An Overview - Mary Cosgrove
Tears That Make the Heart Shine? "Godly Sadness" in Pietism - Peter Damrau
Produktive Negativität: Traurigkeit als Möglichkeitssinn um 1800 - Johannes Kaminski
Die Schwester Lenaus? Betty Paoli und der Weltschmerz - Karin S Wozonig
"Immer wieder kehrst du, Melancholie": Plotting Georg Trakl's Poetic Sadness - Richard Millington
Die Lust am Unendlichen: Melancholie und Ironie bei Robert Walser - Per Brandt and Jens Hobus
Melancholy Echo and the Case of Serenus Zeitblom - Steve Joy
Melancholy in Wilhelm Genazino's Novels and Its Construction as Other - Svenja Frank
The Past is Another Country and the Country Is Another Past: Sadness in East German Texts by Jakob Hein and Julia Schoch - Franziska Meyer

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).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).Millington Richard:
Richard Millington is Senior Lecturer in German at Victoria University of Wellington (Aotearoa New Zealand). He is the author of Snow from Broken Eyes: Cocaine in the Lives and Works of Three Expressionist Poets (2012).