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Mary Cosgrove
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: In Defense of Melancholy 1
- 1: The Diseased Imagination: Perpetrator Melancholy in Günter Grass’s Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke and Beim Häuten der Zwiebel 35
- 2: The Disenchanted Mind: Victim Melancholy in Wolfgang Hildesheimer’s Tynset and Masante 76
- 3: The Feminine Holocaust: Gender, Melancholy, and Memory in Peter Weiss’s Die Ästhetik des Widerstands 110
- 4: From the Weltschmerz of the Postwar Penitent to Capitalism and the “Racial Century”: Melancholy Diversity in W. G. Sebald’s Work 145
- Epilogue: Death of the Male Melancholy Genius: From Vergangenheitsbewältigung to Vergangenheitsbewirtschaftung in Iris Hanika’s Das Eigentliche 185
- Bibliography 201
- Index 223
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: In Defense of Melancholy 1
- 1: The Diseased Imagination: Perpetrator Melancholy in Günter Grass’s Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke and Beim Häuten der Zwiebel 35
- 2: The Disenchanted Mind: Victim Melancholy in Wolfgang Hildesheimer’s Tynset and Masante 76
- 3: The Feminine Holocaust: Gender, Melancholy, and Memory in Peter Weiss’s Die Ästhetik des Widerstands 110
- 4: From the Weltschmerz of the Postwar Penitent to Capitalism and the “Racial Century”: Melancholy Diversity in W. G. Sebald’s Work 145
- Epilogue: Death of the Male Melancholy Genius: From Vergangenheitsbewältigung to Vergangenheitsbewirtschaftung in Iris Hanika’s Das Eigentliche 185
- Bibliography 201
- Index 223
