W.G. Sebald : Schreiben ex patria expatriate writing

Author(s)

• Fischer, Gerhard
• Sydney German Studies Symposium

Bibliographic Information

W.G. Sebald : Schreiben ex patria = expatriate writing

edited by Gerhard Fischer

（Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, 72）

Rodopi, 2009

Other Title

Schreiben ex patria

Expatriate writing

Note

Papers presented at the 2006 Sydney German Studies Symposium

Includes bibliographical references

Text in English and German

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Editor's Note Abbreviations / Sigla Gerhard Fischer: Introduction: W.G. Sebald's Expatriate Experience and His Literary Beginnings I. Territorial Strategies Gerhard Fischer: Schreiben ex patria: W.G. Sebald und die Konstruktion einer literarischen Identitat Judith Ryan: "Lines of Flight": History and Territory in The Rings of Saturn J.J. Long: W.G. Sebald: The Ambulatory Narrative and the Poetics of Digression Martin Klebes: No Exile: Crossing the Border with Sebald and Amery Gunther Pakendorf: Als Deutscher in der Fremde. Heimat, Geschichte und Natur bei W.G. Sebald II. Memory and History Bettina Mosbach: Blinder Fleck - Zur Reflexion der Gewalt der Darstellung bei W.G. Sebald Karen Remmler: Against the Integration of Atrocity into Disaster: W.G. Sebald's Work of Memory Gay Hawkins: History in Things - Sebald and Benjamin on Transience and Detritus Claire Feehily: "The surest engagement with memory lies in its perpetual irresolution". The Work of W.G. Sebald as Counter-Monument James L. Cowan: Sebald's Austerlitz and the Great Library: A Documentary Study Peter Morgan: Literature and National Redemption in W.G. Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction III. Philosophical and Narrative Strategies Michael Mack: Between Elias Canetti and Jacques Derrida: Satire and the Role of Fortifications in the Work of W.G. Sebald Helmut Schmitz: Zweierlei Allegorie: W.G. Sebalds Austerlitz und Stephan Wackwitz' Ein unsichtbares Land Ben Hutchinson: "Seemann" oder "Ackermann"? Einige UEberlegungen zu Sebalds Lekture von Walter Benjamins Essay "Der Erzahler" Klaus R. Scherpe: Auszeit des Erzahlens - W.G. Sebalds Poetik der Beschreibung Lynn Wolff: Literary Historiography: W.G. Sebald's Fiction IV. Intermedial and Literary-Critical Strategies Rolf G. Renner: Intermediale Identitatskonstruktion: Zu W.G. Sebalds Austerlitz Alan Corkhill: Angles of Vision in Sebald's After Nature and Unrecounted Deane Blackler: Sebald's Strange Cinematic Prose: stasis and kinesis George Kouvaros: Images that Remember Us: Photography and Memory in Austerlitz Manfred Jurgensen: Creative Reflection: W.G. Sebald's Critical Essays and Literary Fiction Manfred Durzak: Sebald - der unduldsame Kritiker. Zu seinen literarischen Polemiken gegen Sternheim und Andersch Hans-Christoph Graf v. Nayhauss: Adler und Sebald, Lichtenstein und Grass: Vom Umgang mit Dokumentationen bei der literarischen Produktion V. Intertextual Strategies Richard Bales: Homeland and Displacement: The Status of the Text in Sebald and Proust Maria E. Brunner: Gesteigerte Formen der Wahrnehmung in Schwindel. Gefuhle Christiane Weller: Die Melancholie des Ortes. Stadt, Gewalt und Erinnerung Gabriele Eckart: Against "Cartesian Rigidity": W.G. Sebald's Reception of Borges Contributors

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Details

• NCID: BB13000536
• ISBN:
  • 9789042027817
• LCCN: 2010365500
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: ger
• Text Language Code: engger
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam
• Pages/Volumes: 527 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PT2681.E18
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Sebald, Winfried Georg, 1944-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0031165X