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Ghostwriting: W. G. Sebald’s Poetics of History: New Directions in German Studies

Autor Dr. Richard T. Gray
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 noi 2017
Ghostwriting provides the first comprehensive analysis of the fictional prose narratives of one of contemporary Germany's most recognized authors, the émigré writer W. G. Sebald. Examining Sebald's well-known published texts in the context of largely unknown unpublished works, and informed by documents and information from Sebald's literary estate, this book offers a detailed portrait of his characteristic literary techniques and how they emerged and matured out of the practices and attitudes he represented in his profession as a literary scholar. The title "Ghostwriting" signals the convergence in Sebald's works of a set of diverse historical questions, philosophical views, and literary practices. Many historical ghosts haunt Sebald's narratives on the level of story. Moreover, Sebald's narrator plays the role of a ghostwriter in the profound sense that his stories fictionally re-enact the histories of obscure, but once-living individuals whose lives they revitalize, and whose fates are tied up with the most virulent historical conjunctures of the modern world. This study thus seeks to comprehend the constitutive elements of Sebald's "poetics of history," his implementation of literary tools for effective historical memorializing.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501329999
ISBN-10: 1501329995
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: 36 b/w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 44 mm
Greutate: 0.72 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria New Directions in German Studies

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

A comprehensive approach to W. G. Sebald's prose fictions as a complex body of work and a deep examination of how Sebald's fictions emerge from his scholarly practices and mature over the course of his writing career

Notă biografică

Richard T. Gray is the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities and Professor of German and European Studies at the University of Washington, USA. He is the author of five books, including Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850 (2008), A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia (with Ruth V. Gross, Rolf Goebel, and Clayton Koelb; 2005), About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz (2004), and Stations of the Divided Subject: Contestation and Ideological Legitimation in German Bourgeois Literature, 1770-1912 (1995). He is the editor and/or translator of 11 books, including Volumes 2 and 11 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche in 20 Volumes and Approaches to Teaching Kafka's Short Fiction (1995). He is Editor-at-large of Journal of the Kafka Society of America and General Editor of book series Literary Conjugations.

Cuprins

List of AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sebald's Literary Séance1. Wittgenstein's Ghost: Toward Understanding Sebald's Literary Turn2. The Birth of the Prose Fictionalizer from the Spirit of Biographical Criticism: Schwindel. Gefühle3. Sebald's Literary Refinement: "Dr. Henry Selwyn" and Its Textual Predecessor4. Neither Here Nor There: Exile as Dis-Placement in "Dr. Henry Selwyn"5. Sebald's Ectopia: Homelessness and Alienated Heritage in "Max Aurach"/"Max Ferber"6. Fabulation and Metahistory: W. G. Sebald and the Problematic of Contemporary (German) Holocaust Fiction7. Sebald's Segues: Performing Narrative Contingency in Die Ringe des Saturn8. Writing at the Roche Limit: Order and Entropy in Die Ringe des Saturn9. Narrating Environmental Catastrophe: Ecopsychology and Ecological Apocalypse in Sebald's Corsica ProjectBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

A truly magisterial scholarly work on a writer who continues to inspire a small industry of academic labor. In his new 464-page book Gray has produced what may very well be the definitive text on Sebald for both languages and readerships.
Richard T. Gray is a remarkable reader of W. G. Sebald. Meticulous in his attention to detail as well as learned in understanding of the broader contexts, he teaches us new ways to think about this enigmatic writer.
Ghostwriting is well-written, informative, and wonderfully insightful. With a lucid and evocative style, Richard T. Gray presents exciting revelations about new archival materials: Sebald's marginalia from his library and his partially unpublished manuscript about pending ecological disaster in Corsica (and the world). This book poses the question that all Sebald readers have asked at some point: In what direction might Sebald's writing have gone if he had not died at age fifty-seven? Gray investigates whether Sebald might have returned to the eco-psychological style of the Corsica piece, as a ghostwriter for nature. Especially welcome is the wide-ranging learnedness, which Gray wears lightly, that makes Ghostwriting not just about Sebald but about modern Western literature and thought. This is an excellent, strong, authoritative book-the first to treat Sebald with the care that such a great writer deserves.