"Over the past twenty-five years, photography has moved to centre-stage in the study of visual culture and has established itself in numerous disciplines. This trend has brought with it a diversification in approaches to the study of the photographic image. Photography: Theoretical Snapshots offers exciting perspectives on photography theory today from some of the world’s leading critics and theorists. It introduces new means of looking ..."
W.G. Sebald Image, Archive, Modernity (Hardback) by JonathanJamesLong, Contributor-Claire Abel Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2008 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-14512-1, ISBN: 0-231-14512-8
"... the photographs contribute to the effet de reel, the reality effect that numerous
commentators (including Sebald himself) have noted.6 But the indexical status of
the photograph is also central to the disciplinary aspects of modernity's visual
culture, and it is to Sebald's thematisation of this issue to which I now turn.
Passports, Tourism, Ethnography Abigail Solomon-Godeau argues that the '
reality effect' of the photograph i ..."
The Novels of Thomas Bernhard(Updated) Form and Its Function (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) by JonathanJamesLong Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2001 by Camden House ISBN-13: 978-1-57113-224-6, ISBN: 1-57113-224-4
"Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) is one of the most important writers of the postwar period, not only in his native Austria, but throughout Europe. Almost all his works have been translated into English, and his novels, plays, and non-fiction works have won international acclaim. The present study provides an accessible introduction to Bernhard's novels for an English-speaking readership, and also makes an original contribution to the ongoin ..."
"Now available in paperback, this first collection to appear in English provides a thorough assessmentof his achievement through newly commissioned essays by leading international scholars, offering interdisciplinary perspectives on Sebald's ..."
"Likened to Proust, Gunter Grass, and Virginia Woolf, "W. G. Sebald" (1944-2001) is one of the most important writers of our time, combining a wide readership with universal critical acclaim. Sebald's refracted and sometimes alienated views of both his native Germany and his adopted English homeland have had astonishing resonance in the German- and English-speaking worlds. In this first collection to appear in English, newly commissioned ..."
W. G. Sebald(Updated) A Critical Companion (Literary Conjugations) by Anne Whitehead, J. Long, JonathanJamesLong Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Washington Press International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-295-98423-0, ISBN: 0-295-98423-6
"Likened to Proust, Gunter Grass, and Virginia Woolf, "W. G. Sebald" (1944-2001) is one of the most important writers of our time, combining a wide readership with universal critical acclaim. Sebald's refracted and sometimes alienated views of both his native Germany and his adopted English homeland have had astonishing resonance in the German- and English-speaking worlds. In this first collection to appear in English, newly commissioned ..."
"The possibility that works of art and literature might be forged and that identity might be faked has haunted the cultural imagination for centuries. That spectre seems to have returned with a vengeance recently, with a series of celebrated hoaxes and scandals ranging from the Alan Sokal hoax article in Social Text to Binjamin Wilkomirski s fake Holocaust memoir. But as well as creating anxiety, the possibility of faking it has now ..."
"In consequence, the artists with whom Sebald affiliates himself in his essays and
in his fiction are most frequently those in whom he detects a commitment to a
metaphysical layer, "hinter d[er] Natur der Dinge".3 As he says of Jan Peter
Tripp's paintings: "hinter dem Illusionismus der Oberflache [verbirgt sich] eine
furcht- 1 I would like to thank the Irish Council for the Humanities and Social
Sciencs for funding the research for ..."