W. G. Sebald

History - Memory - Trauma

Scott Denham, Mark McCulloh, Scott Denham, Mark McCulloh

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9783110182743
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110201949
• Topic: Littérature
• Subtopic: Critique littéraire allemande

The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersections that currently motivate interdisciplinary inquiry in German cultural studies. Topics span German-speaking lands and cultures from the 18th to the 21st century, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to create knowledge and add to critical understanding in German studies. The series editor is a renowned professor of German studies in the United States who penned one of the foundational texts for understanding what interdisciplinary German cultural studies can be. All works are peer-reviewed and in English. Three new titles will be published annually.

About the series editor:

Irene Kacandes is the Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.  Shereceived three degrees from Harvard University and also studied at the Free University of Berlin and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She publishes on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics including secondary orality, rhetoric, aesthetics, trauma, witnessing, family and generational memory, experimental life writing, Holocaust testimony, and narrative theory.  She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and currently serves as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and Vice President of the German Studies Association.

Table of contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Foreword: The Sebald Phenomenon
• Introduction: Two Languages, Two Audiences: The Tandem Literary OEuvres of W.G. Sebald
• Introduction and Transcript of an interview given by Max Sebald
• Kafka, Nabokov … Sebald: Intertextuality and Narratives of Redemption in Vertigo and The Emigrants
• Sebald’s Pathographies
• Sebald’s Elective and Other Affinities
• In the Weavers’ Web: An Intertextual Approachto W.G. Sebald and Laurence Sterne
• Sebald’s Kafka
• Sebald’s Amateurs
• “A Time He Could Not Bear to Say Any More About”: Presence and Absence of the Narrator in W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants
• The Task of the Narrator: Moments of Symbolic Investiture in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz
• “Egg boxes stacked in a crate”: Narrative Status and its Implications
• Speak no Evil, Write no Evil: In Search of a Usable Language of Destruction
• On Exposure: Photography and Uncanny Memory in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten and Austerlitz
• Realism, Photography,and Degrees of Uncertainty
• The Dystopian Entwinement of Histories and Identities in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz
• Transcripts: An Ethics of Representation in The Emigrants
• Landscape and Memory: Sebald’s Redemption of History
• The Holocaust as the Still Point of the World in W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants
• W.G. Sebald’s Twentieth-Century Histories
• Going Astray: Melancholy, Natural History, and the Image of Exile in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz
• No Foothold. Institutions and Buildings in W.G. Sebald’s Prose
• The Experience of Destruction: W.G. Sebald, the Airwar, and Literature
• W.G. Sebald and Structures of Testimony and Trauma: There are Spots of Mist That No Eye can Dispel
• Backmatter