Grotesque Ambivalence: Melancholy and Mourning in the Prose Work of Albert Drach

Mary Cosgrove

Published by Max Niemeyer Verlag 2004

Grotesque Ambivalence

Melancholy and Mourning in the Prose Work of Albert Drach

Mary Cosgrove

Volume 49 in the series Conditio Judaica

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110934205

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The focus of this volume is the prose work of the Austrian-Jewish writer Albert Drach (1902-1995). The author explores Drach's critique of totalitarian culture by examining his representations of power and powerlessness, identity and difference, along with cultural processes of exclusion. Drawing on areas as diverse as psychoanalysis, the grotesque and post-colonial theory, this study identifies a significant discursive difference between Drach's shorter fictional prose and the Holocaust trilogy. Drach's highly original linguistic dexterity, his much-discussed 'protocol style', offers a sophisticated critique of the relationship between power, insubordination and capitulation. This is the first English language study dedicated to the complex prose of Albert Drach. It is of interest to students and scholars of Austrian literature, German-Jewish literature as well as Exile and Holocaust Studies.

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Chapter 1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. The Grotesque: Topography of Transgression, Morphology of Emptiness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 3. Grotesque Discourses: Mourning and Melancholia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Chapter 4. Floating Documents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Chapter 5. Ex-centrics, Evil Eyes and Missing Persons: The Optics of Mimicry in Das Goggelbuch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Chapter 6. »Z. Z.« das ist die Zwischenzeit: Paralysis of the Powerless Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Chapter 7. The Time of Evil Children Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Conclusion Concentration Camps of the Mind and the Child in Flight Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
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Language: English
Publisher: Max Niemeyer Verlag
Edition: Reprint 2012
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 230
Keywords: Drach, Albert; Prosa; Erzähltechnik; Das Groteske; Melancholie

eBook

Published: March 12, 2012
ISBN: 9783110934205

Hardcover

Published: January 31, 2005
ISBN: 9783484651494