W.G. Sebald - Die dialektische Imagination

by Ben Hutchinson

Overview

This book uses the annotations in W.G. Sebald’s private library (held in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach) to construct an interpretation of his prose style as fundamentally dialectical. Alongside his readings of writers such as Benjamin, Bernhard, Bassani, and Lévi-Strauss, it uses in particular Adorno’s and Horkheimer’s "Dialektik der Aufklärung" to help develop a close reading of Sebald’s syntax and narrative structures. The key concern of Sebald’s prose emerges not as the Holocaust, but rather the dialectical processes of ‚progress’ and ‚regression’ inherent in history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110223446
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	10/16/2009
Series:	Quellen und Forschungen zur Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	185
File size:	3 MB
Language:	German

About the Author

Ben Hutchinson, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

Editorial Reviews

"Hutchinsons Studie sticht [...] heraus und kann als grundlegend gelten."
Stefan Neuhaus in: Germanistik Redaktion 2011, Band 52, Heft 1-2

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