W. G. Sebald

Kompendienhafter Sammelband zu allen Aspekten des Werks W. G. Sebalds. Herausgegeben von merikanischen Sebald-Experten. Band 1 der neuen Reihe 'Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies'

The novelist, poet, and essayist W. G. Sebald (1944 2001) was perhaps the most original German writer of the last decade of the 20th century (Die Ausgewanderten, Austerlitz, Luftkrieg und Literatur). His writing is marked by a unique 'hybridity' that combines characteristics of travelogue, cultural criticism, crime story, historical essay, and dream diary, among other genres. He employs layers of literary and motion picture allusions that contribute to a sometimes enigmatic, sometimes intimately familiar mood; his dominant mode is melancholy. The contributions of this anthology examine W. G. Sebald as narrator and pensive observer of history. The book includes a previously unpublished interview with Sebald from 1998.

Auteur

Scott Denham,Davidson College, Illinois, USA; Mark McCulloh, Davidson College, Illinois, USA.

Texte du rabat
The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersections that currently motivate interdisciplinary inquiry in German cultural studies. Topics span German-speaking lands and cultures from the 18th to the 21st century, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to create knowledge and add to critical understanding in German studies. The series editor is a renowned professor of German studies in the United States who penned one of the foundational texts for understanding what interdisciplinary German cultural studies can be. All works are peer-reviewed and in English. Three new titles will be published annually. About the series editor: Irene Kacandes is the Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. She received three degrees from Harvard University and also studied at the Free University of Berlin and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She publishes on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics including secondary orality, rhetoric, aesthetics, trauma, witnessing, family and generational memory, experimental life writing, Holocaust testimony, and narrative theory. She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and currently serves as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and Vice President of the German Studies Association.

Résumé

"Insgesamt ergeben die Beiträge des Bandes ein Spektrum, das Fragestellungen der Erinnerungskultur, Geschichtsrepräsentation und der literarischen Fiktion synthetisiert und an präzisen Textanalysen erprobt und somit bei der Beschäftigung mit Sebald unverzichtbar ist."
Heide Reinhäckel in: KULT_online 17/2008

"[...] very illuminating collection of essays."
Silke Arnold-de Simine in: Modern Language Review 2/2008