Edinburgh German Yearbook 6

Sadness and Melancholy in German-Language Literature and Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-57113-528-5
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 198 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 467 g

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.

Established, commissioned, and edited by the Department of German at the University of Edinburgh, the Edinburgh German Yearbook is the only peer-reviewed German Studies publication that each year invites scholarly contributions on a single topic of current challenge to the field. Focusing on "Sadness and Melancholy in German-language Literature and Culture," volume 6 investigates the often subversive function and meaning of sadness and melancholy inGerman-language literature and culture from the seventeenth century to the present where, arguably, it has fallen from the heights of melancholy genius and artistic creativity of earlier epochs to become the embarrassing other ofa Western civilization that prizes happiness as the mark of successful modern living. Interrogating the distinction between sadness as an anthropological constant and melancholy as a shifting cultural discourse, the contributionsexplore how different authors use established literary and cultural topoi from melancholy discourses to comment on topics as diverse as war, religion, gender inequality, and modernity. As well as essays on canonical figures including Goethe and Thomas Mann, the volume features studies of sadness in lesser-known writers such as Betty Paoli and Julia Schoch.

Contributors: Per Brandt, Peter Damrau, Kristian Donko, Svenja Frank, Jens Hobus, StephenJoy, Johannes D. Kaminski, Franziska Meyer, Richard Millington, Karin S. Wozonig.

Mary Cosgrove is Reader in German at the University of Edinburgh. Anna Richards is Lecturer in German at Birkbeck College, University ofLondon.

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 Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

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).