W. G. Sebald's Postsecular Redemption : Catastrophe with Spectator /

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Focusing on W. G. Sebald's four works of prose fiction-- The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, The Emigrants, and Austerlitz --Russell J. A. Kilbourn traces the author's abiding preoccupation with redemption in a world that has been described as postsecular. He shows that Sebald's work stands...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kilbourn, Russell J. A. (Russell James Angus), 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sebald, W. G. > 1944-2001
Sebald, W. G. > (Winfried Georg), > 1944-2001.
Sebald, W. G. > (Winfried Georg), > 1944-2001 > Criticism and interpretation.
Erlösung > Motiv
Erlösung
Redemption in literature.
Redemption dans la litterature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Sebaldian ironies : from postmodern metafiction to postsecular redemption
  • Catastrophe with spectator : remediating the modernist subject in The rings of Saturn
  • "The extermination of the voyager who turns into a landscape" : intermediality and postsecular redemption in The rings of Saturn
  • Interminable journeys : Vertigo and Kafka's "Wandering Jew of the ocean"
  • Metafictional redemption : The emigrants and Nabokov's "Butterfly man"
  • "A vision intended for my liberation" : ironic eschatology and masculine identity in Kafka, Sebald, and Magris
  • "The gift of being remembered" : Speak, memory and Austerlitz
  • "One is always at home in one's past" : Austerlitz and The view from Castle Rock
  • Coda. "in the name of the victims" : memory, redemption, restitution.

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