W. G. Sebald,9780295984223

W. G. Sebald

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ISBN13: 9780295984223
ISBN10: 0295984228
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-08-31
Publisher(s): Univ of Washington Pr
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
A Note on References and Translations ix
W.G. Sebald Chronology xi
Part I: Contexts
1 Introduction
3(13)
J.J. Long and Anne Whitehead
2 Meeting Austerlitz
16(7)
George Szirtes
3 Theoretical Reflections on the Work of W.G. Sebald
23(8)
Martin Swales
Part II: Landscape and Nature
4 On the Misery of Nature and the Nature of Misery: W.G. Sebald's Landscapes
31(14)
Greg Bond
5 Ecocentrism in Sebald's After Nature
45(13)
Colin Riordan
6 Ruins and Poetics in the Works of W.G. Sebald
58(17)
Simon Ward
Part III: Travel and Walking
7 Reading Room: Erosion and Sedimentation in Sebald's Suffolk
75(14)
John Beck
8 Textual Wanderings: A Vertiginous Reading of W.G. Sebald
89(13)
Massimo Leone
9 Sebald's Uncanny Travels: The Impossibility of Getting Lost
102
John Zilcosky
Part IV: Intertextuality and Intermediality
10 Infinite Journey: From Kafka to Sebald
123(17)
Martin Klebes
11 Architecture and Cinema: The Representation of Memory in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz
140(15)
Russell J.A. Kilbourn
12 Traumatic Photographs: Remembrance and the Technical Media in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz
155(20)
Carolin Duttlinger
Part V: Haunting, Trauma, Memory
13 Taboo and Repression in W.G. Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction
175(15)
Wilfried Wilms
14 Seeing Things: Spectres and Angels in W.G. Sebald's Prose Fiction
190(13)
Jan Ceuppens
15 Facing the Past and the Female Spectre in W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants
203(14)
Maya Barzilai
Notes on Contributors 217(4)
Bibliography 221(14)
Index 235

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