Theatre and Film, Johnny Carson School of
Date of this Version
2015
Citation
SHARP News (Society for History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) 24 No. 2, 2015, pp. 14-15.
Abstract
Mary Cosgrove seeks to explore literary variations on the theme of melancholy in postward German fiction, mostly in works by Günter Grass, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Peter Weiss, W. G. Sebald, and Iris Hanika. Her visual point of reference throughout is the 1514 engraving by Albrecht Dürer titled “Melencolia I,” itself the subject of numerous scholarly inquiries.