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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"W. G. Sebald"”.
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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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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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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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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 …