Finch / Wolff Witnessing, Memory, Poetics

H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78204-328-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 332 Seiten

Reihe: Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought

Investigates the connections between German writers H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald and reveals a new hybrid paradigm of writing about the Holocaust in light of the wider literary-political implications of Holocaust representation since 1945.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finch, Helen

Wolff, Lynn L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Adler-Sebald Intertextual Relationship as Paradigm for Intergenerational Literary Testimony
The Connections between H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald, from a Personal Perspective
Memory's Witness-Witnessing Memory
Writing the Medusa: A Documentation of H. G. Adler and Theresienstadt in W. G. Sebald's Library
Poetics of Bearing Witness: H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald
"Schmerzensspuren der Geschichte(n)": Memory and Intertextuality in H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald
"Der Autor zwischen Literatur und Politik": H. G. Adler's "Engagement" and W. G. Sebald's "Restitution"
Memory, Witness, and the (Holocaust) Museum in H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald
History, Emotions, Literature: The Representation of Theresienstadt in H. G. Adler's Theresienstadt 1941-1945, Antlitz einer Zwangsgemeinschaft and W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz
The Kafkaesque in H. G. Adler's and W. G. Sebald's Literary Historiographies
Generational Conflicts, Generational Affinities: Broch, Adorno, Adler, Sebald
"Der verwerfliche Literaturbetrieb unserer Epoche": H. G. Adler and the Postwar West German "Literary Field"
Afterword
Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Finch Helen:
HELEN FINCH is Professor of German Literature at the University of Leeds.