Traces, Memory and the Holocaust in the Writings of W.G. Sebald

Melilah Supplement 2

Edited by Jean-Marc Dreyfus & Janet Wolff

A multidisciplinary study of W.G. Sebald's concerns in German-Jewish history, traces, displacement, and memory of an evocative past, as can be found in his writings on the city of Manchester.

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SKU (ISBN): 978-1-61143-223-7

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Series: Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies (1759-1953)

Interior Color: Black

Trim Size: 7 x 10

Page Count: 96

Languages: English

ISBN: 978-1-61143-223-7

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Melilah is an interdisciplinary journal concerned with Jewish law, history, literature, religion, culture and thought in the ancient, medieval and modern eras.

This volume emerged from a symposium that took place at the University of Manchester, with contributors from various disciplinary backgrounds. The German writer W.G. Sebald had been a scholar at the University early in his career and had been profoundly affected by the character of the city, its flanerie, architecture, urban planning, canals, ruined warehouses, and mills. With these he explored his major literary themes of German-Jewish history, traces, and memory of an evocative past. Likewise, the haunting theme of displacement and its expression through art also seems to originate from his experience of the city. Some of the essays in this volume focus on Sebald’s engagement with Manchester, while others explore broader aspects of his work and writing style, developed after he left Manchester for East Anglia.

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	Jean-MarcDreyfus
	JanetWolff
	Helen Hills
	Muriel Pic
	John Sears
	Jeremy Gregory
	Monica Pearl
	Carole Angier

Table of Contents (page 5)
Memory, Traces and the Holocaust in the Writings of W.G. Sebald by Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Janet Wolff (page 7)
'And So They Are Ever Returning to Us, the Dead:The Presence of the Dead in W.G. Sebald by Carole Angier1 (page 11)
Kindertransport, Camps and the Holocaust in Austerlitz by Jean-Marc Dreyfus (page 19)
The Peripatetic Paragraph:Walking (and Walking) with W.G. Sebald by Monica B. Pearl (page 27)
I Couldnt Imagine Any World Outside Wales: The Place of Wales and Welsh Calvinist Methodism in Sebalds European Story by Jeremy Gregory (page 36)
Utter Blackness: Figuring Sebalds Manchester by John Sears (page 42)
Max Ferber and the Persistence of Pre-Memory in Mancunian Exile by Janet Wolff (page 53)
The Uses of Images: W.G. Sebald & T.J. Clark by Helen Hills (page 63)
Novel Crime, Hunting and Investigation of the Trace in Sebalds Prose by Muriel Pic (page 87)
Notes on Contributors (page 95)

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