Hutchinson, Ben (2023) Literary Predecessors. In: Schütte, Uwe, ed. W.G. Sebald in Context. Cambridge University Press, pp. 176-183. ISBN 978-1-00-905231-3. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:103246)
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Abstract
This essay considers the ways in which Sebald’s engagement with his literary predecessors expresses his aim, explored in all his major books from Nach der Natur (1988) to Austerlitz (2001), of understanding the historically constructed condition of ‘culture’. Beyond the impact of specific individuals on his work – from Thomas Browne to Joseph Conrad, from Thomas Bernhard to Vladimir Nabokov – the essay considers why the idea of a literary tradition was so important to Sebald’s creative project, and how his intertextual engagement with this tradition helped shape the very terms of his writing. What does it mean, we can ask of Sebald with Susan Sontag, to be ‘a European at the end of European civilization’?
| Item Type: | Book section |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PD Germanic philology and languages |
| Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages |
| Depositing User: | Benjamin Hutchinson |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2023 10:22 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 11 Oct 2023 10:22 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/103246 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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Hutchinson, Ben.
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