W. G. Sebald - a critical companion
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In German Studies the literary phenomenon of melancholy, which has a longstanding and diverse history in European letters, has typically been associated with the Early Modern and Baroque periods, Romanticism, and the crisis of modernity. This association, alongside the dominant …
In this probing look at Alfred Döblin{u2019}s 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and the stories of W. G. Sebald, Redeeming Words offers a philosophical meditation on the power of language in literature. David Kleinberg-Levin draws on the critical theory of Benjamin and Adorno; th…
Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Why W.G. Sebald; The Borders of World Literature: Sebald the Author and the Phenomenon; International and Transdisciplinary Reception; Scope and Method; Chapter 1; Literature as Historiography in Context; Literature versus Hi…
