Sebald's vision / Carol Jacobs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobs, Carol, author.

Series:

Literature Now.

Literature now

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001--Criticism and interpretation.

Sebald, W. G.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

W. G. Sebald's writing has been widely recognized for its intense, nuanced engagement with the Holocaust, the Allied bombing of Germany in WWII, and other episodes of violence throughout history. Through his inventive use of narrative form and juxtaposition of image and text, Sebald's work has offered readers new ways to think about remembering and representing trauma.In Sebald's Vision, Carol Jacobs examines the author's prose, novels, and poems, illuminating the ethical and aesthetic questions that shaped his remarkable oeuvre. Through the trope of "vision," Jacobs explores aspects of Sebald's writing and the way the author's indirect depiction of events highlights the ethical imperative of representing history while at the same time calling into question the possibility of such representation. Jacobs's lucid readings of Sebald's work also consider his famous juxtaposition of images and use of citations to explain his interest in the vagaries of perception. Isolating different ideas of vision in some of his most noted works, including Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz, and After Nature, as well as in Sebald's interviews, poetry, art criticism, and his lecture Air War and Literature, Jacobs introduces new perspectives for understanding the distinctiveness of Sebald's work and its profound moral implications.

Contents:

Preface: "Sebald's vision"

Acknowledgments

"Like the snow on the Alps": After Nature

What does it mean to count?: The Emigrants

Frames and excursions: Rings of Saturn

Toward an epistemology of citation: "Air war and literature"

A is for Austerlitz: Austerlitz

Déjà vu or ... : "Like day and night": on the pictures of Jan Peter Tripp"

A critical eye: the interviews.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231540100

0231540108

OCLC:

1054867452