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Author:

Kilbourn, Russell J. A. (Russell James Angus), 1964- author.

Title:

W.G. Sebald's postsecular redemption : catastrophe with spectator / Russell J.A. Kilbourn.

Publisher:

Northwestern University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

ix, 220 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Sebald, W. G.--(Winfried Georg),--1944-2001--Criticism and interpretation.
Sebald, W. G.--(Winfried Georg),--1944-2001.
Redemption in literature.
Redemption in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-214) and index.

Contents:

Introduction. Sebaldian ironies : from postmodern metafiction to postsecular redemption -- Catastrophe with spectator : remediating the modernist subject in The rings of Saturn -- "The extermination of the voyager who turns into a landscape" : intermediality and postsecular redemption in The rings of Saturn -- Interminable journeys : Vertigo and Kafka's "Wandering Jew of the ocean" -- Metafictional redemption : The emigrants and Nabokov's "Butterfly man" -- "A vision intended for my liberation" : ironic eschatology and masculine identity in Kafka, Sebald, and Magris -- "The gift of being remembered" : Speak, memory and Austerlitz -- "One is always at home in one's past" : Austerlitz and The view from Castle Rock -- Coda. "in the name of the victims" : memory, redemption, restitution.

ISBN:

0810138107
9780810138100
0810138085
9780810138087

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1028904526

LCCN:

2018023770

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)