W.G. Sebald: A Critical Companion - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 074861897X ISBN 13: 9780748618972

Verlag: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Likened to Proust, to Günter Grass and Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald (1944–2001) is one of the most important writers of our time, combining a wide readership with universal critical acclaim. Now available in paperback, this first collection to appear in English provides a thorough assessment of his achievement through newly commissioned essays by leading international scholars, offering interdisciplinary perspectives on Sebald's work.

Key features

• The first full-length critical book on Sebald to appear in English.
• All new essays by leading international scholars.
• Covers a range of topics that interested Sebald - such as landscape, nature, travel, haunting and memory.
• Presents interdisciplinary perspectives on Sebald's work.

Likened to Proust, to Günter Grass and Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) is one of the most important writers of our time, combining a wide readership with universal critical acclaim. Now available in paperback, this first collection to appear in English provides a thorough assessment of his achievement through newly commissioned essays by leading international scholars, offering interdisciplinary perspectives on Sebald’s work.Features* The first full-length critical book on Sebald to appear in English.* All new essays by leading international scholars.* Covers a range of topics that interested Sebald - such as landscape, nature, travel, haunting and memory.* Presents interdisciplinary perspectives on Sebald's work.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

J.J. Long is Professor of German at the University of Durham. He has published widely on twentieth-century literature, and is the author of The Novels of Thomas Bernhard (2001). His current research concerns the relationship between photography and narrative.

Anne Whitehead is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of Trauma Fiction (Edinburgh, 2004) and Memory: New Critical Idiom (Routledge, 2009). She has co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities (Edinburgh, 2016), Theories of Memory: A Reader (Edinburgh, 2007) and W. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion (Edinburgh, 2004), as well as a special issue of Feminist Theory on feminism and affect. She has published articles on contemporary literature in a range of journals, including Modern Fiction Studies, Textual Practice, and Contemporary Literature.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh Univ. Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 074861897X
• ISBN 13: 9780748618972
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Herausgeber: Long J. J., Whitehead Anne
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