Screen LibraryGrotesque ambivalence : melancholy and mourning in the prose work of Albert Drach /
Main description: Die erste englischsprachige Studie von Albert Drachs (1902-1995) Prosawerk erforscht die Originalit t der Drachschen Autobiographie im Kontext der aktuellen Holocaust-Debatten. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird insgesamt der Beziehung zwischen Drachs komisch-grotesker Sprache und der m...
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| Publisher Address: | Tübingen : |
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2012. ©2004 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Conditio judaica ; volume 49. |
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Main description: Die erste englischsprachige Studie von Albert Drachs (1902-1995) Prosawerk erforscht die Originalit t der Drachschen Autobiographie im Kontext der aktuellen Holocaust-Debatten. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird insgesamt der Beziehung zwischen Drachs komisch-grotesker Sprache und der melancholischen Art der Darstellung in der Holocaust-Trilogie gewidmet. Leidenschaftlich und kritisch zugleich stellt Drachs Prosa die totalit ren Machtmechanismen seiner Zeit blo . Main description: The first English language study of Albert Drach's (1902-1995) prose work explores the originality of Drach's autobiography in the context of current Holocaust debates. Special attention is paid throughout to the relationship between Drach's comic-grotesque language and the melancholy mode of representation in the Holocaust trilogy. Both passionate and critical, Drach's prose lays bare the totalitarian power mechanisms of his time. The first English language study of Albert Drach's (1902-1995) prose work explores the originality of Drach's autobiography in the context of current Holocaust debates. Special attention is paid throughout to the relationship between Drach's comic-grotesque language and the melancholy mode of representation in the Holocaust trilogy. Both passionate and critical, Drach's prose lays bare the totalitarian power mechanisms of his time |
| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (vi, 230 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110934205 |
| Index Number: | PT2664 |
| CLC: | I521.065 |
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3.3 Anaphora of NothingChapter 4. Floating Documents; 4.1 The Protokoll: Epic of the In-Between; 4.2 Outside the Text: Creating the Catachrestic Space; Chapter 5. Ex-centrics, Evil Eyes and Missing Persons: The Optics of Mimicry in Das Goggelbuch; 5.1 Grotesque Surplus: Mimic Man; 5.2 Representing the In-Between: The Secret Art of Invisibility; 5.3 Fallible Frames; 5.4 Aphanisic Faders; Chapter 6. Z. Z. das ist die Zwischenzeit: Paralysis of the Powerless; 6.1 Diverging Paths: A Theoretical Re-evaluation; 6.2 Writing Apotheosis; 6.3 In the Shadow of the Egocrat: A Micro-Physics of Power. 6.4 The Ventriloquist's DummiesChapter 7. The Time of Evil Children; 7.1 The Spectre of Absolute Negation; 7.2 Divine Intoxication: Simulating Infantile Sovereignty; 7.3 Infernal Sobriety: Apotheosis of the Eternal Present; 7.4 Contours of the Culpable; 7.5 Suffer Little Children; Conclusion. Concentration Camps of the Mind and the Child in Flight; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgements. Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1 Albert Drach: Revolutionary Poet and Bearer of Death; 1.2 O Ophelia : The Encounter with the Cadaver; 1.3 Status Nascendi versus Status Quo: In defence of Nature Morte; 1.4 Positions; 1.5 The Child in Flight; Chapter 2. The Grotesque: Topography of Transgression, Morphology of Emptiness; 2.1 Body Language; 2.2 An Entire Thematics of Mortality and Vitality; 2.3 Subterranean Spaces; Chapter 3. Grotesque Discourses: Mourning and Melancholia; 3.1 Constellation of Cross-Contamination; 3.2 From System to Process: The Semiotic, the Symbolic and the Thetic. |