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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Sebald"”.
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W.G. Sebald and the Cinematic Imagination
W. G. Sebald's references to films, film directors, and actors pervade in both his critical essays and in his prose fictions. Although there are many different films, cinematic metaphors, and allusions to cinema throughout his work, most of them stand in specific service to memory. This study thus …
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"The Chiaroscuro Technique in the Works of W. G. Sebald"
Abstract W. G. Sebald’s writing has often been observed to have a unique quality, a “Sebald effect”. But what is this effect? In asking about it, I was struck by the fact that, even though chiaroscuro (Italian for light and dark) is widely used in the visual arts an appreciated by many due to its …
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The notion of Guardianship within the oeuvre of W. G. Sebald
… to the work of German academic and writer W. G. Sebald (1944-2001). Guardianship is concerned with how memory is interpreted across space and time and how this transmission affects specific characters within Sebald’s literary oeuvre, namely his four prose narratives: Vertigo (1990), The Emigrants …
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The Space of Alterity: Language and National Identity in Theodor Adorno and W.G. Sebald
… and fuels violence. Theodor Adorno and W.G. Sebald secularize the notion of the mother tongue and rehabilitate multilingualism. Adorno advocates a philosophical and an aesthetic framework with one language open to foreign expressions, whereas Sebald promotes translingual literature that mixes …
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Real places and impossible spaces: Foucault's Heterotopia in the fiction of James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, and W.G. Sebald
… exile: James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, and W.G. Sebald. In each case, I argue that these sites figure the experience of exteriority constituted by exile, providing these authors with an alternative perspective from which to perform a particular kind of contestation. In Ulysses, I argue, they …
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Passing on: "The Weight of Memory" and the Second Generation Fiction of Anne Michaels, W. G. Sebald and Bernhard Schlink
… after, Anne Michaels’s Fugitive 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 …
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Narrative Topography: Fictions of Country, City, and Suburb in the Work of Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ian McEwan
… era. The second chapter argues that W. G. Sebald, in The Rings of Saturn, constructs rural Norfolk and Suffolk as containing landscapes of horror--spaces riddled with sinkholes that lead his narrator to think about near and distant acts of violence. As Sebald intimates that this forms a …
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junction
… Carlos Williams, Sandra Cisneros, and W.G. Sebald have also influenced the content of this thesis.
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A Hesitation Of Things
… Kazuo Ishiguro play significant parts while W.G. Sebald and Walter Benjamin are referred to as historians valued for the quality and style of their writing as much as for their scholarship. Meanwhile, Shakespeare’s Hamlet recurs and, through Shakespeare the dissertation attempts to resolve the …
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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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Modellierung der Rekristallisationstextur : Wechselwirkung zwischen Keimbildung und Keimwachstum
The influence of nucleation on nucleus growth during primary static recrystallization is investigated with a statistical model of the textural evolution. The presented time resolved model takes into account several physically based and experimentally confirmed nucleation mechanisms. Nucleus growth …
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The burning rate of aluminum and magnesium wires in pure oxygen and oxygen-water vapor atmosphere at higher pressures
Aluminum and magnesium wires were burned in 100% oxygen at pressures up to 550 psi. Two test series in moist atmospheres containing up to 25% water vapor were carried out with both metals at constant total pressure and at a constant temperature 0 of 280°F. In order to study these effects on the …
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On Foot: Pathways Through Contemporary Literature
… this project examines how texts by W. G. Sebald, Iain Sinclair, and Teju Cole engage with interdisciplinary questions of movement, personal identity, the philosophy of history, and place. Situating these works within the emerging critical field of “walking studies,” I argue that …
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The Heraldic Imagination in German-speaking Lands, c.1480-c.1560
… artists like Albrecht Dürer, Niklaus Manuel, Sebald Beham and Virgil Solis thematised their vocation as creators and authors through heraldic imagery, especially in the depiction of non-attributed, fictional coats of arms aimed at a burgeoning connoisseurial audience. The third chapter turns …
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On Robust State Estimation for Uncertain Systems
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T20:54:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7709178.pdf: 1982235 bytes, checksum: aeff47f8d0a6fa4c16ba834d6bf88088 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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Exile, homecoming, and the remembered journey: towards a new writing of perspective, place and event
… considering in particular the authors W. G. Sebald, Tom McCarthy, Ali Smith, David Shields, Deborah Levy and Gabriel Josipovici. In this study I have considered a range of authors who I believe are particularly illuminating in their exploration of new emerging representations of subjectivity …
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A Study of Constellational Novel Form
… decades (2001–2020) by Jacqueline Rose, W. G. Sebald, Teju Cole, Lisa Robertson, and Olga Tokarczuk. Throughout, I attend to how the formal relationality of these novels entails further questions of ethical relationality. This dissertation seeks to clarify these questions by situating them in …
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Broken contract : the autobiographical performance or producing 'self' in the act of writing a life
… (including J. M. Barrie, Marcel Proust and W. G. Sebald), performance practice (including Marina Abramovic, Tim Etchells and Zhu Yu), popular culture (including Blind Date, Michael Jackson and Marilyn Monroe) and philosophy (including Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida). The main …
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