Wolff W.G. Sebald’s Hybrid Poetics

Literature as Historiography
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-11-034055-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 14, 309 Seiten

Reihe: Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies

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Zielgruppe

Scholars of Literary Studies; historians

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wolff, Lynn L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgments;9
2;List of Abbreviations;11
3;Introduction;13
3.1;Why W.G. Sebald;13
3.1.1;The Borders of World Literature: Sebald the Author and the Phenomenon;15
3.1.2;International and Transdisciplinary Reception;26
3.1.3;Scope and Method;31
4;Chapter 1;45
4.1;Literature as Historiography in Context;45
4.1.1;Literature versus Historiography across the Ages;46
4.1.2;Toward a Genealogy of a Present Past;57
4.1.3;Literary Historiography: A Method of Interdiscursive Writing;59
4.1.4;The Building Blocks of a Hybrid Form: Genre, Narration, Structure;72
4.1.5;Overcoming the Obstacles in Representing the Past;78
5;Chapter 2;81
5.1;Conscious Historiography and the Writer’s Conscience;81
5.1.1;Writing on the Border between Literary Studies and Literature;81
5.1.2;Literary Portraits as Self-Portrait: Logis in einem Landhaus;84
5.1.3;From Polemic to Poetics: Luftkrieg und Literatur;94
5.1.4;The Author’s Role and the Reader’s Engagement;107
6;Chapter 3;112
6.1;What is (in) an Image? Mimesis, Representability, and Visual History;112
6.1.1;Art and Reality;112
6.1.2;Representing the Holocaust and Photographs of Auschwitz;124
6.1.3;Untangling Fact from Fiction: Sebald’s Extratextual Materials;132
6.1.4;Literature as Historiography and Visual History;155
6.1.5;Coda;160
7;Chapter 4;162
7.1;Chronology and Coincidence in the Narrative Cosmos;162
7.1.1;Outlining the Narrative Frame: From Flow to Tableau;162
7.1.2;Plotting the Text: Simultaneity and Co-Presence of Past, Present, and Future;167
7.1.3;Drawing Parallels: Narrative Dis/Conjuncture and Intratextual Cross-References;175
7.1.4;Revealing Changes: Additions and Subtractions in the Austerlitz Manuscript;182
7.1.5;Uncovering the Past: Restitution through Literary Archaeology;188
8;Chapter 5;194
8.1;Witness and Testimony in Literary Memory;194
8.1.1;Post-Postmemory: Discourses, Concepts, and Modes of Memory;197
8.1.2;Testimonial Structure: Making Sense of the Past by Making Meaning in the Present;201
8.1.3;Memory’s Attributes: Visuality, Physicality, Materiality, Uncertainty;206
8.1.4;Memory’s Opposites: Repression and the Crisis of Language;221
9;Chapter 6;228
9.1;Translation as Metaphor and Conservative Innovation;228
9.1.1;Textual Translation;229
9.1.2;Intermedial, Intratextual, and Intertextual Translation;238
9.1.3;Metaphorical Tanslation;248
9.1.4;Irony of/and Literary Innovation;250
9.1.5;Translation as Context;256
10;Conclusion;258
10.1;Panoramic Outlook;258
11;Bibliography of W.G. Sebald’s Primary Works and of Works Cited;262
11.1;I. Primary Sources;262
11.2;II. Primary Texts of W.G. Sebald;263
11.2.1;A. Fictional Prose and Poetry;263
11.2.2;B. English Translations of Sebald’s Works;264
11.2.3;C. Works in Translation (cited in this book);264
11.2.4;D. Literary Criticism, Essays, Biographies, Translations;264
11.3;III. Secondary Literature on W.G. Sebald (cited in this book);269
11.4;IV. W.G. Sebald-Related/-Inspired Films and Websites;281
11.5;V. Related Primary and Secondary Literature;281
12;Name Index;291
13;Subject Index;298

Über Autor(innen)

Lynn L. Wolff, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.