“Immer wieder kehrst du, Melancholie”: Plotting Georg Trakl’s Poetic Sadness

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Sadness and Melancholy in German-Language Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present: An Overview 1
4. Tears That Make the Heart Shine? “Godly Sadness” in Pietism 19
5. Poetry of the Heart as Complicity with the Logos? Female Articulations of Sadness in Goethe’s Lila and Der Triumph der Empfindsamkeit 35
6. Produktive Negativität: Traurigkeit als Möglichkeitssinn um 1800 53
7. Die Schwester Lenaus? Betty Paoli und der Weltschmerz 71
8. “Immer wieder kehrst du, Melancholie”: Plotting Georg Trakl’s Poetic Sadness 95
9. Die Lust am Unendlichen: Melancholie und Ironie bei Robert Walser 113
10. Melancholy Echo and the Case of Serenus Zeitblom 135
11. Melancholy in Wilhelm Genazino’s Novels and Its Construction as Other 151
12. The Past Is Another Country and the Country Is Another Past: Sadness in East German Texts by Jakob Hein and Julia Schoch 173