Baxter / Unknown / Henitiuk A literature of restitution

Critical essays on W. G. Sebald
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0203-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Investigates the crucial question of ‘restitution’ in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Baxter, Jeannette

Henitiuk, Valerie

Hutchinson, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: ‘A quoi bon la littérature?’
Foreword: translating W. G. Sebald, with and without the author – Anthea Bell
Part I: Translation and style
1. W. G. Sebald’s three-letter word: on the parallel world of the English translations – Arthur Williams
2. Encounter and cry: W. G. Sebald as poet – George Szirtes
3. Unquiet prose: W. G. Sebald and the writing of the negative – Shane Weller
Part II: Texts and contexts
4. Surrealist vertigo in Schwindel. Gefühle.– Jeannette Baxter
5. Memoirs of the blind: W. G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten – Dora Osborne
6. ‘Like refugees who have come through dreadful ordeals’: the theme of the Anglo-Irish in Die Ringe des Saturn. Eine englische Wallfahrt – Helen Finch
7. The ‘Arca Project’: W. G. Sebald’s Corsica – Graeme Gilloch
8. Twisted threads: the entwined narratives of W. G. Sebald and H. G. Adler – Peter Filkins
9. Stations, dark rooms and false worlds in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz – David Darby
Part II: ‘Prose’ and photography
10. Fields of association: W. G. Sebald and contemporary performance practices – Simon Murray
11. Still life, portrait, photograph, narrative in the work of W. G. Sebald – Clive Scott
12. The return of the repressed mother in W. G. Sebald’s fiction – Graley Herren
13. The question of genre in W. G. Sebald’s ‘prose’ (towards a post-memorial literature of restitution) – Russell J. A. Kilbourn
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Henitiuk Valerie:
Valerie Henitiuk is Director of the Faculty Commons at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada, where she also holds an academic appointment in EnglishHutchinson Ben:
Ben Hutchinson is Professor of European Literature at the University of KentJeannette Baxter is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

Valerie Henitiuk is Director of the Faculty Commons at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada, where she also holds an academic appointment in English

Ben Hutchinson is Professor of European Literature at the University of Kent