Ghostwriting provides the first comprehensive analysis of the fictional prose narratives of one of contemporary Germany's most recognized authors, the émigré writer W.G. Sebald. Examining Sebald's well-known published texts in the context of largely unknown unpublished works, an…
Zusammenfassung: "Ghostwriting provides the first comprehensive analysis of the fictional prose narratives of one of contemporary Germany's most recognized authors, the émigré writer W.G. Sebald. Examining Sebald's well-known published texts in the context of largely unknown unp…
The author takes us from Sebald's birth as a second-generation German at the end of the Second World War, through his rejection of the poisoned inheritance of the Third Reich, to his emigration to England, exploring the choice of isolation and exile that drove his work
This dissertation examines the effect of twentieth-century "new media" models on literature, in the form of the late twentieth-century wave of literary works in which visual images play a central poetic role. Demarcating this body of works as an independent cultural turn, I labe…
Presents critical and visual material on Sebald's life and works, encompassing a range of first-hand accounts by his former colleagues and students. This book covers various phases and facets of the writer's career, including Sebald as teacher, as founder of the British Centre f…
The German novelist, poet and critic W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) has in recent years attracted a phenomenal international following for his evocative prose works. This book brings together in one volume a wealth of new critical and visual material on his life and works.
"Cosmopolitan Parables explores the global rise of the heavily debated concept of cosmopolitanism from a unique German literary perspective. Since the early 1990s, the notion of cosmopolitanism has acquired a new salience because of an alarming rise in nationalism, xenophobia, m…
