W.G. Sebald's Hybrid Poetics: Literature as Historiography

by Lynn L. Wolff

Overview

W.G. Sebald’s status as one of the most significant German-language authors of the 20th century is rooted in his quest for historical truth beyond ‘facts’. Through an in-depth analysis of Sebald’s œuvre, this book proposes a new paradigm of literature as historiography that moves discussions of genre beyond documentary literature and the historical novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110370539
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	04/02/2014
Series:	Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies , #14
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	309
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Lynn L. Wolff, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.

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Editorial Reviews

Wolff’s book does not, however, simply challenge the interested reader to think about Sebald’s literary work in a meta-representational way, it also shows the academic reader the advantages of familiarity with his critical work, the benefits of wrestling critically with – as opposed to just paraphrasing – the relevant secondary literature, the insights that come from the careful analysis of manuscript sources, and the creative understanding that derives from close reading, untrammelled by theoretical ideas for which Sebald had little or no time. Wolff has been publishing carefully researched, insightful and authoritative work on Sebald since 2007, but the originality and depth of her excellent new book will raise her into the top echelon of those younger scholars who have made Sebald’s life and work one of their primary preoccupations.” (Richard Sheppard, Journal of European Studies)

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