{"product_id":"constructions-of-melancholy-in-contemporary-german-and-austrian-literature-9783034307338","title":"Constructions of Melancholy in Contemporary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMelancholy has become a central theme of German literature since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The rapidly changing sociopolitical circumstances of the post-1989 period and the continued burden of the Nazi past have directly contributed to this upsurge in melancholy themes. This book traces the complex discourse of melancholy in contemporary literature in the work of Monika Maron, Christoph Hein, Arno Geiger and Alois Hotschnig. Focusing on key concepts of melancholy – time, transience, historical dislocation and \u003ci\u003eposthistoire \u003c\/i\u003e– the author’s readings reveal the close connection between the body and melancholy from ageing to our gendered relationships with history. This study also emphasizes the relevance of melancholy for current theoretical issues in German Studies, including Heimat discourse, genealogy and transgenerational memory, and postmemory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«Anna O'Driscoll reveals her talent for evoking the melancholy dead zones of the Austro-German literary landscape in her study \u003ci\u003eConstructions of Melancholy in Contemporary German and Austrian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e.»\u003cbr\u003e C.E.Findley, Journal of Austrian Studies 49:1-2)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Melancholy subjectivity in Monika Maron’s \u003ci\u003eEndmoränen\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAch Glück\u003c\/i\u003e – \u003ci\u003eEndmoränen\u003c\/i\u003e as a neo-Romantic representation of melancholy – Christoph Hein’s \u003ci\u003eFrau Paula Trousseau\u003c\/i\u003e: Art as refuge in the GDR – Divergent conceptions of male and female melancholy in \u003ci\u003eFrau Paula Trousseau\u003c\/i\u003e – Arno Geiger’s \u003ci\u003eEs geht uns gut\u003c\/i\u003e: A \u003ci\u003eposthistoire\u003c\/i\u003e Narrative? – A transgenerational perspective on melancholy loss in \u003ci\u003eEs geht uns gut\u003c\/i\u003e – Alois Hotschnig’s \u003ci\u003eLudwigs Zimmer\u003c\/i\u003e: Evidence of a pre-psychological melancholy paradigm – Manifestation of classical humoral theories as well as a Baroque sensibility in Hotschnig’s \u003ci\u003eLudwigs Zimmer.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043615113559,"sku":"9783034307338","price":46.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783034307338.jpg?v=1750958887","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/constructions-of-melancholy-in-contemporary-german-and-austrian-literature-9783034307338","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}