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Auteur(s) : Gray, Richard T. (1952-....)
Titre(s) : Ghostwriting [Texte imprimé] : W.G. Sebald's poetics of history / Richard T. Gray
Publication : New York : Bloomsbury Academic, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : xiii, 450 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection : New directions in German studies ; Vol. 20
Lien à la collection : New directions in German studies
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages [413]-430) and index
"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unpublished works, and informed by documents and information from Sebald's literary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" ; "A comprehensive study of
W.G. Sebald's prose fictions, including published and unpublished works, with a focus
on the genetic development of his artistic practices and their relationship to his
interests in history, memory, and exile"
Sujet(s) : Sebald, Winfried Georg (1944-2001) -- Critique et interprétation
Littérature et histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781501329999. - ISBN 1501329995 (br.). - ISBN 9781501330001 (erroné). - ISBN
9781501330018 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb466267035
Notice n° :
FRBNF46626703
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