W.G. Sebald : Schreiben ex patria = expatriate writing / edited by Gerhard Fischer.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Fischer, Gerhard, 1945- editor.

Conference Name:

Sydney German Studies Symposium (2006)

Series:

Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik ; 72.

Amsterdamer Beiträge Zur Neueren Germanistik, 0304-6257 ; 72

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Sebald, W. G.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; New York, New York : Rodopi, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents the work of internationally renowned scholars from Australia, Germany, Italy, South Africa, the UK and the US. The focus on W.G. Sebald’s writing as that of an expatriate author offers a fresh and productive approach to Sebald scholarship. In one way or another, all 28 essays in this innovative, bi-lingual collection take up the notion of Sebald’s experience as an expatriate writer: be it in the analysis of intertextual, transmedial and generic border crossings, on the “exposure to the other” and the experience of alterity, on the question of identity construction and performance, on affinities with other expatriate writers, on the recurring topics of “home”, “exile”, “dislocation” and “migration”, or on the continuing work of “memory” to work through and to preserve the consciousness of a destructive past that has informed the childhood as much as the adult life-world of the author.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Gerhard Fischer

Acknowledgements / Gerhard Fischer

Editor’s Note / Gerhard Fischer

Abbreviations/Sigla / Gerhard Fischer

Introduction: W.G. Sebald’s Expatriate Experience and His Literary Beginnings / Gerhard Fischer

Schreiben ex patria: W.G. Sebald und die Konstruktion einer literarischen Identität / Gerhard Fischer

“Lines of Flight”: History and Territory in The Rings of Saturn / Judith Ryan

W.G. Sebald: The Ambulatory Narrative and the Poetics of Digression / J.J. Long

No Exile: Crossing the Border with Sebald and Améry / Martin Klebes

Als Deutscher in der Fremde. Heimat, Geschichte und Natur bei W.G. Sebald / Gunther Pakendorf

Blinder Fleck – Zur Reflexion der Gewalt der Darstellung bei W.G. Sebald / Bettina Mosbach

Against the Integration of Atrocity into Disaster: W.G. Sebald’s Work of Memory / Karen Remmler

History in Things – Sebald and Benjamin on Transience and Detritus / Gay Hawkins

“The surest engagement with memory lies in its perpetual irresolution”. The Work of W.G. Sebald as Counter-Monument / Claire Feehily

Sebald’s Austerlitz and the Great Library: A Documentary Study / James L. Cowan

Literature and National Redemption in W.G. Sebald’s On the Natural History of Destruction / Peter Morgan

Between Elias Canetti and Jacques Derrida: Satire and the Role of Fortifications in the Work of W.G. Sebald / Michael Mack

Zweierlei Allegorie: W.G.Sebalds Austerlitz und Stephan Wackwitz’ Ein unsichtbares Land / Helmut Schmitz

“Seemann” oder “Ackermann”? Einige Überlegungen zu Sebalds Lektüre von Walter Benjamins Essay “Der Erzähler” / Ben Hutchinson

Auszeit des Erzählens – W.G. Sebalds Poetik der Beschreibung / Klaus R. Scherpe

Literary Historiography: W.G. Sebald’s Fiction / Lynn Wolff

Intermediale Identitätskonstruktion: Zu W.G. Sebalds Austerlitz / Rolf G. Renner

Angles of Vision in Sebald’s After Nature and Unrecounted / Alan Corkhill

Sebald’s Strange Cinematic Prose: stasis and kinesis / Deane Blackler

Images that Remember Us: Photography and Memory in Austerlitz / George Kouvaros

Creative Reflection: W.G. Sebald’s Critical Essays and Literary Fiction / Manfred Jurgensen

Sebald – der unduldsame Kritiker. Zu seinen literarischen Polemiken gegen Sternheim und Andersch / Manfred Durzak

Adler und Sebald, Lichtenstein und Grass: Vom Umgang mit Dokumentationen bei der literarischen Produktion / Hans-Christoph Graf volume Nayhauss

Homeland and Displacement: The Status of the Text in Sebald and Proust / Richard Bales

Gesteigerte Formen der Wahrnehmung in Schwindel. Gefühle / Maria E. Brunner

Die Melancholie des Ortes. Stadt, Gewalt und Erinnerung / Christiane Weller

Against “Cartesian Rigidity”: W.G. Sebald’s Reception of Borges / Gabriele Eckart

Contributors / Gerhard Fischer.

Notes:

Papers presented at the 2006 Sydney German Studies Symposium.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-420-2782-7

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042027824 DOI