Literature of Restitution

Jeannette Baxter is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Anglia Ruskin University, CambridgeValerie Henitiuk is Director of the Faculty Commons at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada, where she also holds an academic appointment in EnglishBen Hutchinson is Professor of European Literature at the University of Kent

"The assembled essays discuss familiar issues - including intertextuality, photography, memory and architecture - but often from original perspectives, focusing on lesser known aspects such as Sebald's poetry and his unfinished "Corsica project"." [Carolin Duttlinger; Times Literary Supplement; 07/02/2014], Carolin Duttlinger, Times Literary Supplement, 7 February 2014"The volume's organizing principle, the question of restitution, lends this book a much clearer profile than other edited volumes on Sebald. Taken together, the contributions provide readers with an excellent overview of Sebald's oeuvre...The variety of perspectives from both within and beyond German Studies further sets this volume apart from other publications by offering fresh insights and new contexts within which to consider Sebald's works." - Lynn L. Wolff, Michigan State University. Modern Language Review, Volume 111, Part 2, April 2016‘I enjoyed every essay in this collection and recommend this book to students who encounter Sebald in any of their university courses, and for any reader who has already embarked on a journey with Sebald. The collection is fresh, adding a completely new set of reference points for the scholar and opens up underdeveloped areas for further research, for example, Sebald and the theatre. This book adds to the already rich body of work surrounding Sebald, and reading it will leave the reader in even greater awe of this great writer.’ Tielman de Villiers. University of Hertfordshire, British Society for Literature and Science reviews, September 2016

• Introduction: ‘A quoi bon la littérature?’Foreword: translating W. G. Sebald, with and without the author – Anthea BellPart I: Translation and style1. W. G. Sebald’s three-letter word: on the parallel world of the English translations – Arthur Williams2. Encounter and cry: W. G. Sebald as poet – George Szirtes3. Unquiet prose: W. G. Sebald and the writing of the negative – Shane WellerPart II: Texts and contexts4. Surrealist vertigo in Schwindel. Gefühle.– Jeannette Baxter5. Memoirs of the blind: W. G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten – Dora Osborne 6. ‘Like refugees who have come through dreadful ordeals’: the theme of the Anglo-Irish in Die Ringe des Saturn. Eine englische Wallfahrt – Helen Finch7. The ‘Arca Project’: W. G. Sebald’s Corsica – Graeme Gilloch8. Twisted threads: the entwined narratives of W. G. Sebald and H. G. Adler – Peter Filkins9. Stations, dark rooms and false worlds in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz – David DarbyPart II: ‘Prose’ and photography10. Fields of association: W. G. Sebald and contemporary performance practices – Simon Murray11. Still life, portrait, photograph, narrative in the work of W. G. Sebald – Clive Scott 12. The return of the repressed mother in W. G. Sebald’s fiction – Graley Herren13. The question of genre in W. G. Sebald’s ‘prose’ (towards a post-memorial literature of restitution) – Russell J. A. KilbournReferencesIndex