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A literature of restitution: Critical essays on W. G. Sebald
Baxter. Jeannette
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Description for A literature of restitution: Critical essays on W. G. Sebald
Paperback. Investigates the crucial question of 'restitution' in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell. Editor(s): Baxter, Jeannette; Henitiuk, Valerie; Hutchinson, Ben. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 172 x 243 x 20. Weight in Grams: 552.
This book investigates the crucial question of 'restitution' in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell, the essays collected in this volume place Sebald's oeuvre within the broader context of European culture in order to better understand his engagement with the ethics of aesthetics. Whilst opening up his work to a range of under-explored areas including dissident surrealism, Anglo-Irish relations, contemporary performance practices and the writings of H. G. Adler, the volume notably returns to the original German texts. ... Read more
This book investigates the crucial question of 'restitution' in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell, the essays collected in this volume place Sebald's oeuvre within the broader context of European culture in order to better understand his engagement with the ethics of aesthetics. Whilst opening up his work to a range of under-explored areas including dissident surrealism, Anglo-Irish relations, contemporary performance practices and the writings of H. G. Adler, the volume notably returns to the original German texts. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784993504
SKU
V9781784993504
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About Baxter. Jeannette
Jeannette Baxter is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Valerie Henitiuk is Director of the Faculty Commons at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada, where she also holds an academic appointment in English Ben Hutchinson is Professor of European Literature at the University of Kent -- .
Reviews for A literature of restitution: Critical essays on W. G. Sebald
The assembled essays discuss familiar issues - including intertextuality, photography, memory and architecture - but often from original perspectives, focusing on lesser known aspects such as Sebald's poetry and his unfinished Corsica project . [Carolin Duttlinger; Times Literary Supplement; 07/02/2014], Carolin Duttlinger, Times Literary Supplement, 7 February 2014 The volume's organizing principle, the question ... Read more