Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Reading for Stimmung 1
4. Moments
5. Fleeting Joys in the Songs of Walther von der Vogelweide 23
6. The precarious existence of the pícaro 29
7. Multiplelayers of the world in Shakespeare’s sonnets 38
8. Amorous Melancholy in the novellas of María de Zayas 50
9. Bad weather and a loud voice 56
10. Harmony and rupture in the light of caspar David Friedrich 62
11. Beautiful sadness in Joaquim Machado DeAssis’s last novel 82
12. The freedom of Janis Joplin’s voice 94
13. The iconoclastic energy of surrealism 103
14. “Tragic sense of life” 115
15. Deconstruction, asceticism, and self-pity 128
16. Acknowledgments 135
17. Bibliographical references 137