Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr, Dora Osborne

Автор: Helen Finch, Lynn L. Wolff
Название: Witnessing, Memory, Poetics: H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald
ISBN: 1571135898 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781571135896
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: Investigates the connections between German writers H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald and reveals a new hybrid paradigm of writing about the Holocaust in light of the wider literary-political implications of Holocaust representation since 1945.

Автор: Raphael Zahringer
Название: Hidden Topographies: Traces of Urban Reality in Dystopian Fiction
ISBN: 311053391X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110533910
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
Цена: 123910.00 T
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This book examines dystopian fiction's recent paradigm shift towards urban dystopias. It links the dystopian tradition with the literary history of the novel, spatio-philosophical concepts against the backdrop of the spatial turn, and systems-theory. Five dystopian novels are discussed in great detail: China Mi ville's Perdido Street Station (2000) and The City & The City (2009), City of Bohane (2011) by Kevin Barry, John Berger's Lilac and Flag (1992), and Divided Kingdom (2005) by Rupert Thomson. The book includes chapters on the literary history of the dystopian tradition, the referential interplay of maps and literature, urban spaces in literature, borders and transgressions, and on systems-theory as a tool for charting dystopian fiction. The result is a detailed overview of how dystopian fiction constantly adapts to - and reflects on - the actual world.

Автор: Lynn L. Wolff
Название: W.G. Sebald`s Hybrid Poetics: Literature as Historiography
ISBN: 3110340496 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110340495
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Описание: This book offers a new critical perspective on the perpetual problem of literature's relationship to reality and in particular on the sustained tension between literature and historiography. The scholarly and literary works of W.G. Sebald (1944–2001) serve as striking examples for this discussion, for the way in which they demonstrate the emergence of a new hybrid discourse of literature as historiography. This book critically reconsiders the claims and aims of historiography by re-evaluating core questions of the literary discourse and by assessing the ethical imperative of literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. Guided by an inherently interdisciplinary framework, this book elucidates the interplay of epistemological, aesthetic, and ethical concerns that define Sebald's criticism and fiction. Appropriate to the way in which Sebald's works challenge us to rethink the boundaries between discourses, genres, disciplines, and media, this work proceeds in a methodologically non-dogmatic way, drawing on hermeneutics, semiotics, narratology, and discourse theory. In addition to contextualizing Sebald within postwar literature in German, the book is the first English-language study to consider Sebald's ?uvre as a whole. Of interest for Sebald experts and enthusiasts, literary scholars and historians concerned with the problematic of representing the past.

Автор: Arne De Boever
Название: States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel: Martel, Eugenides, Coetzee, Sebald
ISBN: 1623569524 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781623569525
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: In the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks, the political situation in both the United States and abroad has often been described as a "state of exception": an emergency situation in which the normal rule of law is suspended. In such a situation, the need for good decisions is felt ever more strongly. This book investigates the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of various decisions represented in novels published around 9/11: Martel's Life of Pi, Eugenides' Middlesex, Coetzee's Disgrace, and Sebald's Austerlitz. De Boever's readings of the novels revolve around what he calls the 'aesthetic decision.' Which aesthetics do the characters and narrators in the novels adopt in a situation of crisis? How do these aesthetic decisions relate to the ethical and political decisions represented in the novels? What can they reveal about real-life ethical and political decisions? This book uncovers the politics of allegory, autobiography, focalization, and montage in today's planetary state of exception.

Автор: Snead
Название: Racist Traces and Other Writing
ISBN: 1403911835 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403911834
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This volume is a selection of significant and previously unpublished essays and short stories by the influential critic of German and American literature and popular culture, James A. The volume contains innovative essays and notes about African American popular culture, literary criticism and five pieces of short fiction.

Автор: Ginzburg Carlo
Название: Threads and Traces
ISBN: 0520274482 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520274488
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: What constitutes historical truth? How do we draw a boundary between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? How do we grapple with the historical conventions that inform, in different ways, all written documents? This title looks at these questions raised by decades of post-structuralism.

Автор: Richard T. Gray
Название: Ghostwriting: W. G. Sebald`s Poetics of History
ISBN: 1501329995 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501329999
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Ghostwriting provides the first comprehensive analysis of the fictional prose narratives of one of contemporary Germany’s most recognized authors, the emigre writer W. G. Sebald. Examining Sebald’s well-known published texts in the context of largely unknown unpublished works, and informed by documents and information from Sebald’s literary estate, this book offers a detailed portrait of his characteristic literary techniques and how they emerged and matured out of the practices and attitudes he represented in his profession as a literary scholar. The title “Ghostwriting” signals the convergence in Sebald’s works of a set of diverse historical questions, philosophical views, and literary practices. Many historical ghosts haunt Sebald’s narratives on the level of story. Moreover, Sebald’s narrator plays the role of a ghostwriter in the profound sense that his stories fictionally re-enact the histories of obscure, but once-living individuals whose lives they revitalize, and whose fates are tied up with the most virulent historical conjunctures of the modern world. This study thus seeks to comprehend the constitutive elements of Sebald’s “poetics of history,” his implementation of literary tools for effective historical memorializing.

Автор: Bartov Omer
Название: Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine
ISBN: 0691166552 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691166551
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust in his mother`s hometown of Buchach--in former Eastern Galicia--carries him on a journey ac

Автор: Ginzburg Carlo
Название: Threads and Traces
ISBN: 0520259610 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520259614
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: A collection that takes a stand against naive positivism and allegedly sophisticated neo-skepticism. It looks into questions raised by decades of post-structuralism: What constitutes historical truth? How do we draw a boundary between truth and fiction? And what is the relationship between history and memory?