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The novelist, poet, and essayist W. G. Sebald (1944 - 2001) was perhaps the most original German writer of the last decade of the 20th century ("Die Ausgewanderten", "Austerlitz", "Luftkrieg und Literatur"). His writing is marked by a unique 'hybridity' that combines characteristics of travelogue, cultural criticism, crime story, historical essay, and dream diary, among other genres. He employs layers of literary and motion picture allusions that contribute to a sometimes enigmatic, sometimes intimately familiar mood; his dominant mode is melancholy. The contributions of this anthology examine
Deutsche Literatur. --- Sebald, Winfried Georg. --- Germanic Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Sebald, Winfried Georg, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- זבאלד, וו. --- Sebald, Max, --- Sebald, W. G. --- Deutschland /Literatur, Literaturgeschichte. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German.
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Germanic Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Sebald, Winfried Georg, --- Sebald, W. G. --- זבאלד, וו. --- Sebald, Max, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Die Sekundärliteratur über W.G. Sebald hat in erstaunlicher Schnelle nahezu unüberschaubare Ausmaße angenommen. Allerdings bearbeitet der überwiegende Teil der Publikationen einen begrenzten Kreis an Themen, die man auf den Komplex Trauma-Holocaust-Intermedialität-Erinnerung-Melancholie reduzieren kann. Zumeist steht dabei der Roman Austerlitz im Fokus der Aufmerksamkeit, während - neben den anderen Prosabänden - ganze Werkbereiche vernachlässigt werden. Dazu zählen das Frühwerk und die Lyrik, aber auch das beachtliche Korpus literaturkritischer Schriften, sowie die weitgehend unbekannten szenischen Texte Sebalds. Angesichts dieser ungenügenden Lage fokussiert Über Sebald gezielt auf solche Themen und Texte, die bisher ignoriert oder nicht wirklich in ihrer grundlegenden Bedeutung für ein differenzierteres Verständnis dieses zwischen Literaturwissenschaft und Literatur, Deutschland und England, Verehrung und Ablehnung situierten Autors erkannt wurden. Bei den Beiträgern dieses zweisprachigen Bandes handelt es sich zumeist um internationale Sebald-Experten und Nachwuchsforscher sowie Privatgelehrte, die außerhalb des Wissenschaftsbetriebs stehen. Persönliche Erinnerungen von Sebalds Doktoranden runden den Band ab, der das bisher bekannte Bild dieses Schlüsselautors der Literatur des späten zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts wesentlich erweitert und über das geläufige Bild hinaus vertieft.
Authors, German --- Ecrivains allemands --- Sebald, W. G. --- זבאלד, וו. --- Sebald, Max, --- Sebald, Winfried Georg, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Sebald, Winfried G. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German.
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Die vorliegende Studie widmet sich einer Analyse des Sebald'schen Prosastils unter Rekonstruktion des literarischen Produktionsprozesses. Erstmals in einer Monografie wird seine Handbibliothek im Deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach erschlossen, um die stilistischen Einflüsse von Dichtern und Denkern wie Adorno, Benjamin, Bernhard, Bassani und Lévi-Strauss in seinem Werk herauszustellen. Mit Blick auf seine Rezeption der Fortschrittskritik der Frankfurter Schule werden als wesentliche Schlüssel zum Werk W.G. Sebalds nicht Holocaust und Zweiter Weltkrieg, sondern die dialektischen Prozesse von Geschichte nachgewiesen. This book uses the annotations in W.G. Sebald’s private library (held in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach) to construct an interpretation of his prose style as fundamentally dialectical. Alongside his readings of writers such as Benjamin, Bernhard, Bassani, and Lévi-Strauss, it uses in particular Adorno’s and Horkheimer’s „Dialektik der Aufklärung“ to help develop a close reading of Sebald’s syntax and narrative structures. The key concern of Sebald’s prose emerges not as the Holocaust, but rather the dialectical processes of ‚progress’ and ‚regression’ inherent in history.
German literature --- History and criticism. --- Sebald, Winfried Georg, --- Sebald, W. G. --- זבאלד, וו. --- Sebald, Max, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Technique. --- Dialectic of Enlightenment. --- W.G. Sebald.
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In this probing look at Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and the stories of W. G. Sebald, Redeeming Words offers a philosophical meditation on the power of language in literature. David Kleinberg-Levin draws on the critical theory of Benjamin and Adorno; the idealism and romanticism of Kant, Hegel, Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schelling; and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. He shows how Döblin and Sebald—writers with radically different styles working in different historical moments—have in common a struggle against forces of negativity and an aim to bring about in response a certain redemption of language. Kleinberg-Levin considers the fast-paced, staccato, and hard-cut sentences of Döblin and the ghostly, languorous, and melancholy prose fiction of Sebald to articulate how both writers use language in an attempt to recover and convey this utopian promise of happiness for life in a time of mourning.
Language and languages in literature. --- Sebald, Winfried Georg, --- Döblin, Alfred, --- Sebald, W. G. --- זבאלד, וו. --- Sebald, Max, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Deblin, A., --- Poot, Linke, --- Doeblin, Alfred, --- דבלין, אלפרד, --- דעבלין, אלפרעד --- Döblin, Alfred
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This book offers a unique and original reading of his dazzling oeuvre arguing that Sebalds work is concerned first and foremost with the problem of modernity.
German literature. --- Sebald, Winfried Georg, --- Sebald, W. G. --- זבאלד, וו. --- Sebald, Max, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- German lite. --- Literature and photography. --- Archives in literature. --- Subjectivity in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Photography and literature --- Photography
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Exploring travellers' tales of wonder in contemporary literature, this study challenges a sensibility of disenchantment with travel. It reassesses travel writing as an aesthetically and ethically innovative form in contemporary international literature, and demonstrates the crucial role of wonder in the travel narratives of writers such as Bruce Chatwin, V.S. Naipaul, and W.G. Sebald. Their 'travellers' tales of wonder' are read as a challenge to the hubris of thinking the world too well known, and an invitation to encounter the world - including its most troubling histories - with a sense of wonder.
Travel in literature. --- Travelers' writings --- History and criticism. --- Chatwin, Bruce, --- Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad --- Sebald, Winfried Georg --- Naipaul, V. S. --- Sebald, W. G. --- Critique et interprétation --- Critique et interprétation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Travellers. --- Travellers --- Voyagers --- Wayfarers --- Persons --- Voyages and travels --- Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), --- Chatwin, Bruce --- Chatwin, Charles Bruce --- Voyages and travels in literature --- זבאלד, וו. --- Sebald, Max,
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In his Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that animals enjoy direct access to a realm of being-the open-concealed from humans by the workings of consciousness and self-consciousness. In his own reading of Rilke, Martin Heidegger reclaims the open as the proper domain of human existence but suggests that human life remains haunted by vestiges of an animal-like relation to its surroundings. Walter Benjamin, in turn, was to show that such vestiges-what Eric Santner calls the creaturely-have a biopolitical aspect: they are linked to the processes that inscribe life in the realm of power and authority. Santner traces this theme of creaturely life from its poetic and philosophical beginnings in the first half of the twentieth century to the writings of the enigmatic German novelist W. G. Sebald. Sebald's entire oeuvre, Santner argues, can be seen as an archive of creaturely life. For Sebald, the work on such an archive was inseparable from his understanding of what it means to engage ethically with another person's history and pain, an engagement that transforms us from indifferent individuals into neighbors. An indispensable book for students of Sebald, On Creaturely Life is also a significant contribution to critical theory.
Melancholy in literature. --- Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Benjamin, Walter, --- Rilke, Rainer Maria, --- Sebald, Winfried Georg, --- Influence. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Melancholy in literature --- Psychoanalysis and literature --- Literature and psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalytic literary criticism --- Literature --- זבאלד, וו. --- Sebald, Max, --- Rilke, René Maria Cäsar, --- Li-erh-kʻo, --- Rielke, Rainer Maria, --- Rilkʻe, Rainŏ Maria, --- Rilḳeh, Rainer Mariyah, --- Rilke, Reiner Marie, --- רילקה, ראינר מריה, --- רילקה, ריינר מריה --- רילקה, ריינר מריה, --- רילקה, רינר מריה --- רילקה, רינר מריה, --- רילקה, רץ מ. --- רילקה, ר.מ --- Benjamin, W. --- Benjamin, Walter --- Sebald, W. G. --- Holz, Detlef, --- Banyaming, --- Benʼyamin, Varutā, --- Peñcamin̲, Vālṭṭar, --- Binyamin, Ṿalṭer, --- בנימין, ולטר --- בנימין, ולטר, --- ולטר, בנימין, --- Penyamin, Palt'ŏ, --- 벤야민 발터, --- リルケ, ライナー マリア --- Rilke, Rainer Maria --- consciousness, self, close reading, analysis, analytical, critical, critique, existence, human, life, relationships, biopolitics, biopolitical, power, authority, poetic, philosophical, theory, theoretical, sebald, rilke, benjamin, literary, literature, philosophy, academic, scholarly, research, ethics, neighbors, communal, community, interpersonal.
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This book argues that increasingly transnational reading contexts of the twenty-first century place new pressures on fundamental questions about how we read literary fiction. Prompted by the stylistic strategies of three European émigré writers of the twentieth century — Conrad, Weiss and Sebald — it demonstrates the need to pose more differentiated questions about specific effects that occur when literary narratives meet a readership with a heterogeneous historical imaginary. In conversation with reception theory, trauma theory and transnational and postcolonial studies, the study shows how historical pressures in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries require comparative literature to address not only implied but also various unimplied reading positions that engage history in displaced yet material ways. This book opens new analytical paths for thinking about literary texts as media of historical imagination and conceiving relations between incommensurable historical events and contexts. Challenging overly global and overly local readings alike, the book presents a sophisticated contribution to discussions on how to reform the discipline of comparative literature in the twenty-first century.
Literature. --- Comparative literature. --- Literature, Modern --- European literature. --- European Literature. --- Comparative Literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- 20th century. --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Weiss, Peter, --- Sebald, W. G. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- European literature --- Literature --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- History and criticism --- Sebald, Winfried Georg, --- זבאלד, וו. --- Sebald, Max, --- Vais, Peter, --- Veĭs, Peter, --- Korzeniowski, Józef Konrad Teodor, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad Theodore, --- Konrad, Dzhozef, --- Kʻang-la-te, --- Conrad-Korzeniowski, Joseph, --- Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad-, --- Kʻonradŭ, Josep, --- Kʻonradŭ, Chosep, --- Kʻolladŭ, Josep, --- Konrad, Dzd. --- Conrad, Józef, --- קונראד, ג׳וזף, --- קונראד, ג׳וסף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף --- קונרד, ג׳וזף, --- קונרד, יוסף --- 康拉德, --- Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowsky, Jozef Tedor, --- Konrant, Tzozeph, --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Literature, Modern—20th century.
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