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Title: A Literature of Restitution
Condition: New
EAN: 9780719088520
ISBN: 9780719088520
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 31/10/2013
Item Height: 240mm
Item Length: 170mm
Contributor: Jeannette Baxter (Edited by), Valerie Henitiuk (Edited by), Ben Hutchinson (Edited by)
Author: Jeannette Baxter
Language: English
Subtitle: Critical Essays on W. G. Sebald
ISBN-10: 0719088526
Description:

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.

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