W. G. Sebald - A Critical Companion

J.J. Long is Professor of German at the University of Durham. He has published widely on twentieth-century literature, and is the author of The Novels of Thomas Bernhard (2001). His current research concerns the relationship between photography and narrative. Anne Whitehead is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of Trauma Fiction (Edinburgh, 2004) and Memory: New Critical Idiom (Routledge, 2009). She has co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities (Edinburgh, 2016), Theories of Memory: A Reader (Edinburgh, 2007) and W. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion (Edinburgh, 2004), as well as a special issue of Feminist Theory on feminism and affect. She has published articles on contemporary literature in a range of journals, including Modern Fiction Studies, Textual Practice, and Contemporary Literature.

• Acknowledgements; A Note on References and Translations; W. G. Sebald Chronology; Part I: Contexts; 1. J. J. Long and Anne Whitehead, Introduction; 2. George Szirtes, Meeting Austerlitz; 3. Martin Swales, Theoretical Reflections on the Work of W. G. Sebald; Part II: Landscape and Nature; 4.Greg Bond, On the Misery of Nature and the Nature of Misery; 5. Colin Riordan, Ecocentrism in Sebald's After Nature; 6. Simon Ward, Ruins and Poetics in the Work of W.G. Sebald; Part III: Travel and Walking; 7. John Beck, Reading Room: Erosion and Sedimentation in Sebald's Suffolk; 8. Massimo Leone, Textual Wanderings: A Vertiginous Reading of W. G. Sebald; 9. John Zilcosky, Sebald's Uncanny Travels, or the Impossibility of Being Lost; Part IV: Intertextuality and Intermediality; 10. Martin Klebes, Infinite Journey: From Kafka to Sebald; 11. Russell Kilbourn, Architecture and Cinema: The Representation of Memory in Austerlitz; 12. Carolin Duttlinger, Traumatic Photographs: Remembrance and the Technical Media in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz; Part V: Haunting, Trauma, Memory; 13. Wilfried Wilms, Taboo and Repression in On the Natural History of Destruction; 14. Jan Ceuppens, Seeing Things: Spectres and Angels in W.G. Sebald's Prose Fiction; 15. Maya Barzilai, Facing the Past and the Female Spectre in The Emigrants; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index.