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Comedy and Trauma in Germany and Austria after 1945 : the Inner Side of Mourning
- Title
- Comedy and Trauma in Germany and Austria after 1945 : the Inner Side of Mourning / Stephanie Bird.
- Author
- Bird, Stephanie
- Publication
- Cambridge : Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association, 2016.
- ©2016
- Supplementary Content
- Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- Description
- x, 228 pages; 26 cm
- Summary
- Comedy is often held to be incompatible with trauma and suffering; it triggers anxiety and moral disquiet around the pleasure we take in reading or watching another's pain. Such concern is particularly acute in relation to suffering that has assumed the status of a cultural trauma, such as that caused by the Holocaust and the Second World War. This long overdue study explores the significance of the comical in German and Austrian postwar cultural representations of suffering. It analyses how the comical challenges the expectations and ethics of representing suffering and trauma. It does so, moreover, by critically examining dominant paradigms which currently enjoy so much status - such as that of trauma and the nowadays automatic validity and universal applicability of victim identity. The study focuses on the work of Ingeborg Bachmann, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, W. G. Sebald, Volker Koepp, Reinhard Jirgl, Ruth Klüger, Edgar Hilsenrath and Jonathan Littell. --
- Series Statement
- Germanic literatures ; 10
- Uniform Title
- Germanic literatures ; 10.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-218) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: comedy, trauma and the ethics of representation -- 1 Ingeborg Bachmann: comedy and the women's weepie -- 2 Rainer Werner Fassbinder: ludicrous melodrama and comic double vision -- 3 W. G. Sebald: melancholy's seduction and the pleasures of comedy -- 4 Volker Koepp and Reinhard Kirgl: comedy and monologic histories -- 5 Ruth Klüger: comedy and ressentiment -- 6 Edgar Hilsenrath and Jonathan Littell: perpetrators, comedy and the fantasy of justice.
- Call Number
- JFF 17-2177
- ISBN
- 9781909662957
- 190966295X
- LCCN
- 2017275051
- OCLC
- 920454014
- Author
- Bird, Stephanie, author.
- Title
- Comedy and Trauma in Germany and Austria after 1945 : the Inner Side of Mourning / Stephanie Bird.
- Publisher
- Cambridge : Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Germanic literatures ; 10Germanic literatures ; 10.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-218) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFF 17-2177