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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Austerlitz"”.
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Invisible landscapes : landscape, memory and time in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz
The eponymous protagonist of Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald's final prose novel, is haunted by landscapes of loss. Both Austerlitz and the narrator are acutely aware of the signs of destruction and of the invisible histories of loss in the landscapes through which they travel. Through the gaze of both …
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Trauma and Memory In W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz and Günter Grass's Im Krebsgang
… Krebsgang</em> (2002), and W. G. Sebald's <em>Austerlitz</em> (2001) with regard to trauma and memory. It will be argued that both texts call for a working through of Holocaust guilt, i.e. for the traumatic events of World War II, to be remembered, whereby <em>Im Krebsgang</em> makes aware of …
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Towards a ‘‘living connection with the past’’ : Ludwig Wittgenstein and the representation of history in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz
… Sebald's representation of history in his novel Austerlitz (2001). Wittgenstein is explicitly mentioned in the text of the novel; this dissertation argues that his philosophy can help us to understand Sebald's project of restoring the past through literary engagement.
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From denotation to detonation : aestheticization, memory and emphathic readings in trauma narratives
… formal elements are addressed are W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz and Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces. Using Austerlitz, I attend to the themes of alienation through looking specifically at narrative style. Using Michel de Certeau's theory of the everyday, I suggest that the contours of the familiar …
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France— Military Causes of Collapse in The West, 1940
… an army which had shown the offensive elan of Austerlitz and of Jena, the defensive tenacity of the Marne and of Verdun, whose artillery was considered the finest in Europe, and whose infantry had earned the feared title La Furia Francese, could suddenly disintegrate in the field.
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The notion of Guardianship within the oeuvre of W. G. Sebald
… (1992), The Rings of Saturn (1995), and Austerlitz (2001). By examining the concept through different theoretical lenses, and considering existing Sebald scholarship relevant to specific areas of interest, the aim of the thesis is to uncover how characters within Sebald’s prose oeuvre …
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Passing on: "The Weight of Memory" and the Second Generation Fiction of Anne Michaels, W. G. Sebald and Bernhard Schlink
… Pieces, W. G. Sebald’s The Emigrants and Austerlitz and Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader, in order to investigate the textual strategies each text employs to bear witness on behalf of another and pass on what Sebald has called "the weight of memory" . While Sebald uses the phrase to describe …
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A Study of Constellational Novel Form
… modes of constellational form in Sebald’s Austerlitz (2001). My third chapter interprets Teju Cole’s 2011 novel Open City as constitutively torn between the ethics of characterological alterity and constellational form, arguing that this tension can be illuminated in terms of Namwali …
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If I Could Tell
… technical achievements, among them W G Sebald's Austerlitz, Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum, J M Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K, Tolstoy's novella-length short story Haji Murat, Graham Greene's The Quiet American, Alain Robbe-Grillers The Erasers, Philip Roth's American Pastoral and, more …
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The Space of Alterity: Language and National Identity in Theodor Adorno and W.G. Sebald
<p>The German Romantic monolingual paradigm of national identity emerged in the late eighteenth century to establish a mother tongue as a national backbone. This paradigm portrayed multilingualism as destabilizing, impoverishing, and unsuitable for aesthetics. Radicalized by the Nazis and …