{"product_id":"ghostwriting-w-g-sebalds-poetics-of-history-paperback-3","title":"Ghostwriting: W. G. Sebald's Poetics of History - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard T. Gray\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhostwriting \u003c\/i\u003eprovides the first comprehensive analysis of the fictional prose narratives of one of contemporary Germany's most recognized authors, the émigré writer W. G. Sebald. Examining Sebald's well-known published texts in the context of largely unknown unpublished works, and informed by documents and information from Sebald's literary estate, this book offers a detailed portrait of his characteristic literary techniques and how they emerged and matured out of the practices and attitudes he represented in his profession as a literary scholar. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe title \"Ghostwriting+? signals the convergence in Sebald's works of a set of diverse historical questions, philosophical views, and literary practices. Many historical ghosts haunt Sebald's narratives on the level of story. Moreover, Sebald's narrator plays the role of a ghostwriter in the profound sense that his stories fictionally re-enact the histories of obscure, but once-living individuals whose lives they revitalize, and whose fates are tied up with the most virulent historical conjunctures of the modern world. This study thus seeks to comprehend the constitutive elements of Sebald's \"poetics of history, +? his implementation of literary tools for effective historical memorializing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard T. Gray\u003c\/b\u003e is the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities and Professor of German and European Studies at the University of Washington, USA. He is the author of five books, including \u003ci\u003eMoney Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), \u003ci\u003eA Franz Kafka Encyclopedia\u003c\/i\u003e (with Ruth V. Gross, Rolf Goebel, and Clayton Koelb; 2005), \u003ci\u003eAbout Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz \u003c\/i\u003e(2004), and \u003ci\u003eStations of the Divided Subject: Contestation and Ideological Legitimation in German Bourgeois Literature, 1770-1912\u003c\/i\u003e (1995). He is the editor and\/or translator of 11 books, including Volumes 2 and 11 of \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche in 20 Volumes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eApproaches to Teaching Kafka's Short Fiction \u003c\/i\u003e(1995). He is Editor-at-large of \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Kafka Society of America\u003c\/i\u003e and General Editor of book series Literary Conjugations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47336409661689,"sku":"9781501352614","price":86.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/XFPMvcim5A9781501352614_96c7e83c-a16d-417c-8ee4-545633ececdd.webp?v=1769667530","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/ghostwriting-w-g-sebalds-poetics-of-history-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}