W. G. Sebald's Postsecular Redemption by Russell Kilbourn

W. G. Sebald's Postsecular Redemption by Russell Kilbourn

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Zusammenfassung

Focusing on W. G. Sebald's four works of prose fiction, Russell J. A. Kilbourn traces the author's abiding preoccupation with redemption in a world that has been described as postsecular. He shows that Sebald's work stands between modernism's ironic hopes for redemption and whatever comes after.

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W. G. Sebald's Postsecular Redemption by Russell Kilbourn

Focusing on W. G. Sebald's four works of prose fiction, Russell J. A. Kilbourn traces the author's abiding preoccupation with redemption in a world that has been described as postsecular. He shows that Sebald's work stands between modernism's ironic hopes for redemption and whatever comes after.
This is a dazzlingly written book of exceptional intellectual range and great academic integrity, with beautiful insights into Sebald on almost every pageW. G. Sebald's Postsecular Redemption will be one of the most important and eagerly awaited publications on Sebald in years." —Helen Finch, author of Sebald's Bachelors: Queer Resistance and the Unconforming Life.
Russell J. A. Kilbourn is an associate professor of English and film studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema.
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ISBN 13 9780810138087
ISBN 10 0810138085
Titel W. G. Sebald's Postsecular Redemption
Autor Russell Kilbourn
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Northwestern University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2018-11-30
Seitenanzahl 208
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