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Book SynopsisWithin the five years before his premature death in 2001, W.G. Sebald made an astounding ascent into the canon of world literature. This accessible volume offers a comprehensive overview of the contexts in which his life, work and legacy are located, with special focus on his unpublished and untranslated texts.
Trade Review'A terrific book which manages to return Sebald-studies back to a Sebaldian place where grand historical sweeps and the merest marginalia illuminate each other to new effect. Overall, it refreshes both our sense of Sebald as an academic and literary subversive and of the astonishing breadth of themes addressed in and provoked by his work - in film, in pop music, in relation to the Anthropocene, in the cult of The Sebaldian to name a few - and it does so while remaining accessible.' Grant Gee, director of Patience: After Sebald (2011)
'This is a wonderful handbook of short, readable essays that explores the lesser-known aspects of this complex and elusive writer whose documentary style of prose has always beguiled us into believing we know more about the man than we do.' Tacita Dean, artist
Table of ContentsPart I. Biograpical Aspects: 1. Allgäu Kai Wolfinger; 2. Sebald's grandfather Christoph Steker; 3. Manchester Catharine Annabel; 4. East Anglia Jo Catling; 5. Academia Florian Radvan; 6. The British centre for literary translation Duncan Large; 7. Between Germany and Britain Rüdiger Görner; Part II. The Literary Works: 8. Unpublished Juvenilia Melissa Etzler; 9. Film scripts Michael Hutchins; 10. The 'Prose project'Paul Whitehead; 11. Auto-/biography Christoph Singer; 12. Natural history and the anthropocene Bernhard Malkmus; 13. The corsica project Lisa Kunze; 14. Poetry Iain Galbraith; 15. The world war project Richard Hibbitt; 16. Interviews Torsten Hoffmann; Part III. Themes and Influences: 17. Critical writings Sven Meyer; 18. Minor writing Uwe Schütte; 19. Franz kafka Ritchie Robertson; 20. Literary predecessors Ben Hutchinson; 21. Walter benjamin Luisa Banki; 22. Philosophical models and influences Paul Thompson; 23. History Lynn L. Wolff; 24. Polemics Uwe Schütte; 25. Holocaust Jakob Hessing; 26. Photography Nick Warr; 27. Paintings and ekphrasis Leonida Kovač; 28. Media theory Florian Leitner; 29. Travel writing David Anderson; 30. Eco-criticism and animal studies Lisa Kunze; Part IV. Reception and Legacy: 31. Sebald scholarship Lynn L. Wolff; 32. Sebald in translation Martin Schauss; 33. The 'Sebaldian' Adrian Nathan West; 34. Film Andrew J. Webber; 35. Pop music Hendrik Otremba; 36. Literary prizes Uwe Schütte; 37. Visual arts and exhibitions Terry Pitts; 38. The cult of Sebald Ian Ellison.
