A Literature of Restitution: Critical Essays on W. G. Sebald - Couverture rigide

 
9780719088520: A Literature of Restitution: Critical Essays on W. G. Sebald
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ISBN 10 : 0719088526 ISBN 13 : 9780719088520
Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This book investigates the crucial question of 'restitution' in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell, the essays collected in this volume place Sebald's oeuvre within the broader context of European culture in order to better understand his engagement with the ethics of aesthetics.

Whilst opening up his work to a range of under-explored areas including dissident surrealism, Anglo-Irish relations, contemporary performance practices and the writings of H. G. Adler, the volume notably returns to the original German texts. The recurring themes identified in the essays - from Sebald's carefully calibrated syntax to his self-consciousness about 'genre', from his interest in liminal spaces to his literal and metaphorical preoccupation with blindness and vision - all suggest that the 'attempt at restitution' constitutes the very essence of Sebald's understanding of literature.

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À propos des auteurs

Valerie Henitiuk is Director of the Faculty Commons at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada, where she also holds an academic appointment in English

Ben Hutchinson is Professor of European Literature at the University of Kent

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Éditeur
Manchester University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0719088526
ISBN 13 
9780719088520
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Éditeur
Baxter Jeannette, Henitiuk Valerie, Hutchinson Ben
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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