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This book offers a new critical perspective on the perpetual
problem of literature's relationship to reality and in particular
on the sustained tension between literature and historiography. The
scholarly and literary works of W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) serve as
striking examples for this discussion, for the way in which they
demonstrate the emergence of a new hybrid discourse of literature
as historiography. This book critically reconsiders the claims and
aims of historiography by re-evaluating core questions of the
literary discourse and by assessing the ethical imperative of
literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. Guided by an inherently
interdisciplinary framework, this book elucidates the interplay of
epistemological, aesthetic, and ethical concerns that define
Sebald's criticism and fiction. Appropriate to the way in which
Sebald's works challenge us to rethink the boundaries between
discourses, genres, disciplines, and media, this work proceeds in a
methodologically non-dogmatic way, drawing on hermeneutics,
semiotics, narratology, and discourse theory. In addition to
contextualizing Sebald within postwar literature in German, the
book is the first English-language study to consider Sebald's
oeuvre as a whole. Of interest for Sebald experts and enthusiasts,
literary scholars and historians concerned with the problematic of
representing the past.
This book offers a new critical perspective on the perpetual
problem of literature's relationship to reality and in particular
on the sustained tension between literature and historiography. The
scholarly and literary works of W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) serve as
striking examples for this discussion, for the way in which they
demonstrate the emergence of a new hybrid discourse of literature
as historiography. This book critically reconsiders the claims and
aims of historiography by re-evaluating core questions of the
literary discourse and by assessing the ethical imperative of
literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. Guided by an inherently
interdisciplinary framework, this book elucidates the interplay of
epistemological, aesthetic, and ethical concerns that define
Sebald's criticism and fiction. Appropriate to the way in which
Sebald's works challenge us to rethink the boundaries between
discourses, genres, disciplines, and media, this work proceeds in a
methodologically non-dogmatic way, drawing on hermeneutics,
semiotics, narratology, and discourse theory. In addition to
contextualizing Sebald within postwar literature in German, the
book is the first English-language study to consider Sebald's
oeuvre as a whole. Of interest for Sebald experts and enthusiasts,
literary scholars and historians concerned with the problematic of
representing the past.
Investigates the connections between German writers H.G. Adler and
W.G. Sebald and reveals a new hybrid paradigm of writing about the
Holocaust in light of the wider literary-political implications of
Holocaust representation since 1945. 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 witnessing, literary testimony, and the possibility of a
"poetics" after Auschwitz. Adler, a Czech Jew who survived
Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, was a prolific writer of prose and
poetry, but his work remained little known until Sebald, possibly
the most celebrated German writer of recent years, cited it in his
2001 work, Austerlitz. Since then, a rediscovery of Adler has been
under way. This volume of essays by international experts on Adler
and Sebald investigates the connections between the two writers to
reveal a new hybrid paradigm of writing about the Holocaust that
advances our understanding of the relationship between literature,
historiography, and autobiography. In doing so, the volume also
reflects on the wider literary-political implications of Holocaust
representation, demonstrating the shifting norms in German-language
"Holocaust literature." Contributors: Jeremy Adler, Jo Catling,
Peter Filkins, Helen Finch, Frank Finlay, Kirstin Gwyer, Katrin
Kohl, Michael Kruger, Martin Modlinger, Dora Osborne, Ruth
Vogel-Klein, Lynn L. Wolff. Helen Finch is Associate Professor in
German at the University of Leeds. Lynn L. Wolff is assistant
Professor at Michigan State University.
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Animal Life (Paperback)
Tarah L. Wolff; Edited by Sharon Harris; Jerry Mevissen
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R523
Discovery Miles 5 230
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Sacrifices is a fantasy novel based after the humans were finally
able to claim their freedom. Picking up the pieces after slavery
the rulers (known as Wards, blessed with the power of will) built
an empire with their capital cities standing strong and their
people safe. But now something red is lurking from the west,
something that salivates after the utter power that once freed the
humans. Join Jezaline, Osondrous and Karalay as they face the
breaking of the Wards and the growing certainty that an ancient
enemy is lying in wait for just one bad decision. Karalay has long
been desperate for companionship, a healer, a scholar that has
never known a life that included love, when she finds it, she
abandons her place as a Ward to her people. Jezaline is on the
move, not even knowing for certain what she is looking for, an
incident from her childhood (something she only admits as a
nightmare) is calling louder and louder that it was nothing as
simple as a rape. Osondrous, young, rash and a warlord since birth,
steps up to run the guard, to protect the people. She stands in
blind stubbornness, ignoring all warning signs as the red savage
from the west breathes harder and harder down her neck.
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Thunderbirds! (Hardcover)
Martin Caidin; Illustrated by Fred L. Wolff
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R1,122
Discovery Miles 11 220
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The story of the U.S. 56th Fighter Group that shot down over 1,000
Nazi planes.
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Thunderbirds! (Paperback)
Martin Caidin; Illustrated by Fred L. Wolff
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R833
Discovery Miles 8 330
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The story of the U.S. 56th Fighter Group that shot down over 1,000
Nazi planes.
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