The Undiscover`d Country – W.G. Sebald and the Poetics of Travel: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Introduction: Fluchtträume/Traumfluchten; Journeys to the Undiscover'd Country Die Kunst des Fliegens by W. G. Sebald Peripatetic Liminality: Sebald and the Tradition of the Literary Walk W. G. Sebald: The Anti-Tourist "A Wrong Turn of the Wheel": Sebald's Journeys of (In)Attention If You Come to a Spa: Displacing the Cure in Schwindel. Gefühle. and Austerlitz Campi Deserti: Polar Landscapes and the Limits of Knowledge in Sebald and Ransmayr "Eine Art Eingang zur Unterwelt": Katabasis in Austerlitz Convergence Insufficiency: On Seeing Passages between W. G. Sebald and the "Travel Writer" Bruce Chatwin Tripping: On Sebald's "Stifter" Adventure, Imprisonment, and Melancholy: Heart of Darkness and Die Ringe des Saturn Mapping Historical Networks in Die Ringe des Saturn Topographical Anxiety and Dysfunctional Systems: Die Ausgewanderten and Freud's Little Hans While the Hidden Horrors of History are Briefly Illuminated: The Poetics of Wandering in Austerlitz and Die Ringe des Saturn Works Cired Notes on the Contributors Index