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

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Dublin, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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

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

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