Born Under Auschwitz: Melancholy Traditions in Postwar German Literature

by Mary Cosgrove

In German Studies the literary phenomenon of melancholy, which has a longstanding and diverse history in European letters, has typically been associated with the Early Modern and Baroque periods, Romanticism, and the crisis of modernity. This association, alongside the dominant psychoanalytical view of melancholy in German memory discourses since the 1960s, has led to its neglect as an important literary mode in postwar German literature, a situation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571135561
• ISBN13: 9781571135568
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.2" x 6.2"