Ghostwriting : W. G. Sebald's poetics of history /: W. G. Sebald's poetics of history. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: W. G. Sebald's poetics of history
• Further Information: Note: Richard T. Gray.
• Authors: Gray, Richard T
• Contents: FC ; New Directions in German Studies; Volumes in the series:; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Sebald's Literary Séance; 1 Wittgenstein's Ghost: Toward Understanding Sebald's Literary Turn; 2 The Birth of the Prose Fictionalizer from the Spirit of Biographical Criticism: Schwindel. Gefühl; Envisioning Fiction(s); A Text with a View: Imaginative and Visual Experiments in "Beyle oder das merckwürdige Faktum der Liebe"; After Kafka: The Transition from Literary Criticism to Literature in "Dr. K.s Badereise nach Riva" Gracchus/Sebald: The Undead Revenant as Ghostly Writer3 Sebald's Literary Refinement: "Dr. Henry Selwyn" and Its Textual Predecessor; 4 Neither Here Nor There: Exile as Dis-Placement in "Dr. Henry Selwyn"; 5 Sebald's Ectopia: Homelessness and Alienated Heritage in "Max Aurach"/"Max Ferber"; Contemplating Heritage as Hidden History; Modernity and the Breach with Heritage; Exploring Herkunft in "Max Aurach"; Exile and Loss of Home in the Embedded Story of Luisa Lanzberg; Sebald's Narrator as Parsifal Figure; The (Self-)Transformation of Sebald's Narrator; Max Aurach as Exile by Choice? Aurach's Art as Deconstructive Representation of Ancestral GhostsArt as Besinnung auf Herkunft (Commemoration of Heritage); 6 Fabulation and Metahistory: W. G. Sebald and the Problematic of Contemporary (German) Holocaust Fiction; Fabulation and Metahistory; The Complex Problematic of Holocaust Fiction; German-Language Holocaust Fiction; Holocaust Documentary as the Wedding of History and Metafiction; 7 Sebald's Segues: Performing Narrative Contingency in Die Ringe des Saturn; 8 Writing at the Roche Limit: Order and Entropy in Die Ringe des Saturn The Roche Limit, Oppositional Forces, and Historical PreservationGrids, Vanishing Points, and Sebald's Critique of Visual-Representational Orders; 9 Narrating Environmental Catastrophe: Ecopsychology and Ecological Apocalypse in Sebald's Corsica Project; The Corsica Project in Sebald's Oeuvre; Why Corsica?; Ecopsychology and Self-Critique; Witnessing and Testifying to Human Self-Imposed Exile from Nature; Sebald and the Principles of Ecopsychology; Literary Intertexts: Exploring the Psychology of Violence Against Nature; Historical Intertexts: Documenting Environmental Loss; Narrating the Apocalypse of Environmental CatastropheBibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 450 pages)
• Subjects: 833/.914; Literary studies: from c 1900; Literature and history; Memory in literature; Exiles in literature; Collective memory and literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Collective memory and literature; Exiles in literature; Literature and history; Memory in literature; Literary theory; Literary Criticism -- European -- German; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501330001; 1501330004
• Related ISBNs: 9781501330018; 1501330012; 9781501329999
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 26, 2017).
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