W.G. Sebald: a critical companion

by Long, J. J., (Jonathan James) Whitehead, Anne

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Focusing on the key areas of travel, intertextuality, nature and memory, this collection of essays by leading international scholars offers interdisciplinary perspectives on Sebald's work, providing a thorough assessment of his achievements.

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Full title :W.G. Sebald : a critical companion / edited by J.J. Long and Anne Whitehead.

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Publication Date:©2004.

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Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2004.

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Description:xii, 239 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

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ISBN:074861897X, 9780748618972
oclc:ocm55965711
LC Classification:PT2681.E18
Dewey Decimal:838.91409

Introduction / J.J. Long and Anne Whitehead -- Meeting Austerlitz / George Szirtes -- Theoretical reflections on the work of W.G. Sebald / Martin Swales -- On the misery of nature and the nature of misery : W.G. Sebald's landscapes / Greg Bond -- Ecocentrism in Sebald's After nature / Colin Riordan -- Ruins and poetics in the works of W.G. Sebald / Simon Ward -- Reading room : erosion and sedimentation in Sebald's Suffolk / John Beck -- Textual wanderings : a vertiginous reading of W.G. Sebald / Massimo Leone -- Sebald's uncanny travels : the impossibility of getting lost / John Zilcosky -- Infinite journey : from Kafka to Sebald / Martin Klebes -- Architecture and cinema : the representation of memory in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz / Russell J.A. Kilbourn -- Traumatic photographs : remembrance and the technical media in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz / Carolin Duttlinger -- Taboo and repression in W.G. Sebald's On the natural history of destruction / Wilfried Wilms -- Seeing things : spectres and angels in W.G. Sebald's prose fiction / Jan Ceuppens -- Facing the past and the female spectre in W.G. Sebald's The emigrants / Maya Barzilai.