Witnessing, memory, poetics : H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald /

Witnessing, memory, poetics : H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald /

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Since 1945, authors and scholars have intensely debated what form literary fiction about the Holocaust should take. The works of H. G. Adler (1910-1988) and W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), two modernist scholar-poets who settled in England but never met, present new ways of reconceptualizing the nature of...

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Other Authors: Finch, Helen (Editor), Wolff, Lynn L. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, 2014.
Subjects:
Adler, H. G. > Criticism and interpretation.
Sebald, W. G. > (Winfried Georg), > 1944-2001 > Criticism and interpretation.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Literature and history.
Memory in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Collective memory and literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the Adler-Sebald intertextual relationship as paradigm for intergenerational literary testimony / Helen Finch and Lynn l. Wolff
  • Intertexts in context. Opening address : the connections between H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald, from a personal perspective / Jeremy Adler
  • Memory's witness--witnessing memory / Peter Filkins
  • Writing the medusa : a documentation of H.G. Adler and Theresienstadt in W.G. Sebald's library / Jo Catling
  • Witnessing trauma and the poetics of witnessing. Poetics of bearing witness : H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald / Katrin Kohl
  • "Schmerzensspuren der geschichte(n)" : memory and intertextuality in H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald / Kirstin Gwyer
  • "Der autor zwischen literatur und politik" : H.G. Adler's "engagement" and W.G. Sebald's "restitution" / Lynn l. Wolff
  • Memory, memorialization and the re-presentation of history. Memory, witness, and the (Holocaust) Museum in H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald / Dora Osborne
  • History, emotions, literature : the representation of Theresienstadt in H.G. Adler's Theresienstadt 1941-1945, antlitz einer zwangsgemeinschaft and W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz / Ruth Vogel-Klein
  • Literary legacies and networks. The Kafkaesque in H.G. Adler's and W.G. Sebald's literary historiographies / Martin Modlinger
  • Generational conflicts, generational affinities : Broch, Adorno, Adler, Sebald / Helen Finch
  • "Der verwerfliche literaturbetrieb unserer epoche" : H.G. Adler and the postwar West German "literary field" / Frank Finlay
  • Afterword / Michael Kruger.

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