A literature of restitution:Critical essays on W. G. Sebald

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Baxter, Jeanette, Henitiuk, Valerie and Hutchinson, Ben, eds. (2013) A literature of restitution:Critical essays on W. G. Sebald. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-8852-0

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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. The recurring themes identified in the essays - from Sebald's carefully calibrated syntax to his self-consciousness about 'genre', from his interest in liminal spaces to his literal and metaphorical preoccupation with blindness and vision - all suggest that the 'attempt at restitution' constitutes the very essence of Sebald's understanding of literature.

Item Type:	Book
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature and Creative Writing (former - to 2011) Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Related URLs:	http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co....
Depositing User:	Katherine Humphries
Date Deposited:	12 Dec 2012 10:35
Last Modified:	18 Jul 2021 23:32
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40535
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