Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr
Published on 2. December 2017
198 pages
978-1-351-19234-7 (ISBN)
Description
"Both W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) and the Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr (1954-) were born too late to know directly the violence of the Second World War and the Holocaust, but these traumatic events are a persistent presence in their work. In a series of close readings of key prose texts, Dora Osborne examines the different ways in which the traces of a traumatic past mark their narratives. By focusing on the authors' use of visual and topographical tropes, she shows how blind spots and inhospitable places configure signs of past violence, but, ultimately, resist our understanding. Whilst links between the two authors are well-documented, this book offers the first full-length study of Sebald and Ransmayr and their complicated relation to the traumatic traces of National Socialism. Dora Osborne is Lecturer in German at the University of Nottingham."
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
5,00 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-19234-7 (9781351192347)
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06/2020
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03/2013
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Person
Dora Osborne
Content
Introduction: Post-Postwar Literature 1. Traces of Trauma 2. The Terrors of Ice and Darkness: The Case of the Ice-Man 3. Narbenubersat': An Excess of Traces in the Dog King 4. Displacement, Dysfunction, and Erasure in the Emigrants 5. Blind Spots: Austerlitz 6. Conclusion
