| A Literature of Restitution: Critical Essays on W. G. Sebald Contributor(s): Baxter, Jeannette (Editor), Henitiuk, Valerie (Editor), Hutchinson, Ben (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1784993506 ISBN-13: 9781784993504 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $43.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | European - German - Poetry | European - German |
| Dewey: 831.914 |
| LCCN: 2016286213 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.13 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |