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Long description: W.G. Sebalds Ästhestik des Marginalen

Utopie --- W.G. Sebald --- Marginalität --- Sebald, W. G.

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This book offers a new critical perspective on the perpetual problem of literature's relationship to reality and in particular on the sustained tension between literature and historiography. The scholarly and literary works of W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) serve as striking examples for this discussion, for the way in which they demonstrate the emergence of a new hybrid discourse of literature as historiography. This book critically reconsiders the claims and aims of historiography by re-evaluating core questions of the literary discourse and by assessing the ethical imperative of literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. Guided by an inherently interdisciplinary framework, this book elucidates the interplay of epistemological, aesthetic, and ethical concerns that define Sebald's criticism and fiction. Appropriate to the way in which Sebald's works challenge us to rethink the boundaries between discourses, genres, disciplines, and media, this work proceeds in a methodologically non-dogmatic way, drawing on hermeneutics, semiotics, narratology, and discourse theory. In addition to contextualizing Sebald within postwar literature in German, the book is the first English-language study to consider Sebald's œuvre as a whole. Of interest for Sebald experts and enthusiasts, literary scholars and historians concerned with the problematic of representing the past.

Bild-Text-Relation. --- Holocaust studies. --- Holocaust. --- Sebald, W.G. --- text-image relationship. --- Geschichtsschreibung --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. --- Historiographie --- Historiografie --- Historisierung --- Schrifttum --- Geschichtswissenschaft --- Sebald, W. G. --- זבאלד, וו. --- Sebald, Max, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Epic literature --- Memory in literature. --- German literature --- History and criticism. --- Jewish authors --- Sebald, W. G. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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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