W.G. Sebald: History, Memory, Trauma

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Scott D. Denham, Mark Richard McCulloh
Walter de Gruyter, 2006 - 382 pagini

The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersections that currently motivate interdisciplinary inquiry in German cultural studies. Topics span German-speaking lands and cultures from the 18th to the 21st century, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to create knowledge and add to critical understanding in German studies. The series editor is a renowned professor of German studies in the United States who penned one of the foundational texts for understanding what interdisciplinary German cultural studies can be. All works are peer-reviewed and in English. Three new titles will be published annually.

About the series editor:

Irene Kacandes is the Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Shereceived three degrees from Harvard University and also studied at the Free University of Berlin and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She publishes on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics including secondary orality, rhetoric, aesthetics, trauma, witnessing, family and generational memory, experimental life writing, Holocaust testimony, and narrative theory. She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and currently serves as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and Vice President of the German Studies Association.

 

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Foreword The Sebald Phenomenon
1
The Tandem Literary OEuvres of WG Sebald
7
Introduction and Transcript of an interview given by Max Sebald
21
Section 1 Contexts and Influences
31
Intertextuality and Narratives of Redemption in Vertigo and The Emigrants
33
Sebalds Pathographies
65
Sebalds Elective and Other Affinities
77
An Intertextual Approach to WG Sebald and Laurence Sterne
91
Photography and Uncanny Memory in WG Sebalds Die Ausgewanderten and Austerlitz
205
Realism Photography and Degrees of Uncertainty
219
Section 3 History and Trauma
231
The Dystopian Entwinement of Histories and Identities in WG Sebalds Austerlitz
233
An Ethics of Representation in The Emigrants
251
Sebalds Redemption of History
265
The Holocaust as the Still Point of the World in WG Sebalds The Emigrants
279
WG Sebalds TwentiethCentury Histories
291

Sebalds Kafka
105
Sebalds Amateurs
127
Section 2 Narrative and Style
139
Presence and Absence of the Narrator in WG Sebalds The Emigrants
141
Moments of Symbolic Investiture in WG Sebalds Austerlitz
157
Narrative Status and its Implications
171
In Search of a Usable Language of Destruction
183
Melancholy Natural History and the Image of Exile in WG Sebalds Austerlitz
301
No Foothold Institutions and Buildings in WG Sebalds Prose
315
WG Sebald the Airwar and Literature
335
There are Spots of Mist That No Eye can Dispel
351
Short Titles and Abbreviations used in this Volume
365
Works Cited
367
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