Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund

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Format: 1 online resource (224 p.) : , 12 B/W illustrations

ISBN: 9780748633883

Content: W. G. Sebald is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant writers to have emerged onto the global literary scene in recent decades, and is frequently mentioned in the same breath as Nabokov, Kafka, Borges, Calvino, Proust, and Primo Levi.W. G. Sebald – Image, Archive, Modernity offers a unique and original reading of Sebald's dazzling oeuvre, arguing that his work is concerned first and foremost with the problem of modernity. It focuses in particular on the numerous archival institutions and processes that lie at the very heart of modernity and are repeatedly thematised throughout Sebald's work.Adopting a broad definition of the archive to encompass a wide range of material practices, the book analyses the function of photography, museums, libraries, and other systems of knowledge to which Sebald's texts obsessively return. Following Foucault, such systems are seen as central to the exercise of power and the constitution of subjectivity in modernity. By undertaking a differentiated analysis that is attuned to the formal complexities of Sebald's texts, this book shows that Sebald's engagement with structures of power-knowledge is characterised by a melancholy struggle to assert autonomous selfhood in the face of the institutional and discursive determinants of subjectivity.Key FeaturesOriginal interdisciplinary approachWritten by an acknowledged Sebald specialistFocus on modernity which expands the parameters of our understanding of SebaldFully up-to-date, taking account of all of the most recent research

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- , A NOTE ON REFERENCES AND TRANSLATIONS -- , 1 INTRODUCTION -- , PART I -- , 2 THE COLLECTION -- , 3 THE PHOTOGRAPH -- , 4 DISCIPLINE -- , PART II -- , 5 WONDER: VERTIGO -- , 6 FAMILY ALBUMS: THE EMIGRANTS -- , 7 THE AMBULATORY NARRATIVE: THE RINGS OF SATURN -- , 8 THE ARCHIVAL SUBJECT: AUSTERLITZ -- , 9 CONCLUSION -- , BIBLIOGRAPHY -- , INDEX , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780748633883

URL: Co-access DOI click Walter de Gruyter

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748633883

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 210 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)

ISBN: 9780748633883

Content: This book offers a unique and original reading of his dazzling oeuvre arguing that Sebalds work is concerned first and foremost with the problem of modernity

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780748633876

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780748633876

Language: English

Subjects: German Studies

Keywords: Sebald, W. G. 1944-2001 ; Archiv ; Moderne

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