Witnessing, Memory, Poetics - H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald

Investigates the connections between German writers H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald and reveals a new hybrid paradigm of writing about the Holocaust in light of the wider literary-political implications of Holocaust representation since 1945.

List of contents

Introduction: The Adler-Sebald Intertextual Relationship as Paradigm for Intergenerational Literary Testimony
The Connections between H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald, from a Personal Perspective
Memory's Witness-Witnessing Memory
Writing the Medusa: A Documentation of H. G. Adler and Theresienstadt in W. G. Sebald's Library
Poetics of Bearing Witness: H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald
"Schmerzensspuren der Geschichte(n)": Memory and Intertextuality in H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald
"Der Autor zwischen Literatur und Politik": H. G. Adler's "Engagement" and W. G. Sebald's "Restitution"
Memory, Witness, and the (Holocaust) Museum in H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald
History, Emotions, Literature: The Representation of Theresienstadt in H. G. Adler's Theresienstadt 1941-1945, Antlitz einer Zwangsgemeinschaft and W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz
The Kafkaesque in H. G. Adler's and W. G. Sebald's Literary Historiographies
Generational Conflicts, Generational Affinities: Broch, Adorno, Adler, Sebald
"Der verwerfliche Literaturbetrieb unserer Epoche": H. G. Adler and the Postwar West German "Literary Field"
Afterword
Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index

About the author

Helen Finch, Lynn L. Wolff

Summary

Investigates the connections between German writers H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald and reveals a new hybrid paradigm of writing about the Holocaust in light of the wider literary-political implications of Holocaust representation since 1945.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Finch, Lynn L. Wolff
• Assisted by: Dr. Helen Finch (Editor), Helen Finch (Editor), Lynn L Wolff (Editor), Lynn L. Wolff (Editor), Lynn L. (Customer) Wolff (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2014
• EAN: 9781571135896
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-589-6
• No. of pages: 332
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 614 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature,; Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought; Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought; Dialogue and Disjunction: Stud
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989)