Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Sadness and Melancholy in German-Language Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present: An Overview
- Tears That Make the Heart Shine? “Godly Sadness” in Pietism
- Poetry of the Heart as Complicity with the Logos? Female Articulations of Sadness in Goethe's Lila and Der Triumph der Empfindsamkeit
- Produktive Negativität: Traurigkeit als Möglichkeitssinn um 1800
- Die Schwester Lenaus? Betty Paoli und der Weltschmerz
- “Immer wieder kehrst du, Melancholie”: Plotting Georg Trakl's Poetic Sadness
- Die Lust am Unendlichen: Melancholie und Ironie bei Robert Walser
- Melancholy Echo and the Case of Serenus Zeitblom
- Melancholy in Wilhelm Genazino's Novels and Its Construction as Other
- The Past is Another Country and the Country Is Another Past: Sadness in East German Texts by Jakob Hein and Julia Schoch
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Sadness and Melancholy in German-Language Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present: An Overview
- Tears That Make the Heart Shine? “Godly Sadness” in Pietism
- Poetry of the Heart as Complicity with the Logos? Female Articulations of Sadness in Goethe's Lila and Der Triumph der Empfindsamkeit
- Produktive Negativität: Traurigkeit als Möglichkeitssinn um 1800
- Die Schwester Lenaus? Betty Paoli und der Weltschmerz
- “Immer wieder kehrst du, Melancholie”: Plotting Georg Trakl's Poetic Sadness
- Die Lust am Unendlichen: Melancholie und Ironie bei Robert Walser
- Melancholy Echo and the Case of Serenus Zeitblom
- Melancholy in Wilhelm Genazino's Novels and Its Construction as Other
- The Past is Another Country and the Country Is Another Past: Sadness in East German Texts by Jakob Hein and Julia Schoch
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- Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012