Interventionen : Literaturkritik als Widerspruch bei W. G. Sebald
- Submitting institution
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Aston University
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 23172226
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Edition Text und Kritik
- ISBN
- 3-86916-354-2
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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C - Literature, Culture, History and Society
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 640pp monograph is ground-breaking in examining the entirety of Sebald’s critical writings, both published and unpublished. It complements the extensive research published on Sebald’s literary texts, opening up new avenues for a better, in-depth understanding of his oeuvre. Not only does the monograph reveal (and reconstruct, on basis of extensive archive material) his (failed) plans for two schol-arly volumes, Interventionen also demonstrates the close integration of critical and imaginative modes of writing in Sebald’s oeuvre, significantly revising our previous understanding of his work. Research was supported by grants by the DAAD and Deutsches Literaturarachiv.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- The monograph undertakes the first comprehensive investigation of W.G. Se-bald’s under-researched critical writings. Apart from an in-depth examination of the two academic monographs by Sebald, his two essay collections on Austrian literature and the controversial lectures on Air war and Literature, Interven-tionen also explores his critical publications (such as his academic reviews, forewords to exhibition catalogues, etc.) along with unknown research applications, personal correspondences, and other archive material. The monograph completely revises our understanding of Sebald’s oeuvre by showing how his literary writings developed out of his critical texts and how the two modes of writing mutually inform each other.