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Ghostwriting - W. G. Sebald's Poetics of History (Paperback)
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Ghostwriting - W. G. Sebald's Poetics of History (Paperback)
Series: New Directions in German Studies
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Ghostwriting provides the first comprehensive analysis of the
fictional prose narratives of one of contemporary Germany's most
recognized authors, the emigre 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unknown unpublished works, and informed by documents and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.
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