Grotesque ambivalence : melancholy and mourning in the prose work of Albert Drach /

Grotesque ambivalence : melancholy and mourning in the prose work of Albert Drach /

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Author / Creator:	Cosgrove, Mary.
Imprint:	Tübingen : M. Niemeyer, 2004.
Description:	1 online resource (237 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Conditio Judaica, 0941-5866 ; 49 Conditio Judaica ; 49.
Subject:	Drach, Albert, -- 1902-1995 -- Criticism and interpretation. Drach, Albert, -- 1902-1995. Ambivalence in literature. Melancholy in literature. Ambivalence in literature. Melancholy in literature. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11382800

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ISBN:	9783110934205 3110934205 3484651490 9783484651494
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Notes:	Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Dublin, 2002. Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Cosgrove, Mary. Grotesque ambivalence : melancholy and mourning in the prose work of Albert Drach. Tübingen : M. Niemeyer, 2004 vi, 230 pages ; 24 cm. Conditio Judaica ; 49 0941-5866 9783484651494

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Summary:	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.
Item Description:	Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Dublin, 2002.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (237 pages)
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9783110934205 3110934205 3484651490 9783484651494
ISSN:	0941-5866 ;