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

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ISBN 10 : 1784993506 ISBN 13 : 9781784993504

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2016

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.

A propos du livre

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784993506
• ISBN 13: 9781784993504
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Baxter Jeannette, Henitiuk Valerie, Hutchinson Ben
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