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W.G. Sebald's Ekhprastic Writing
Leonida Kovač
; Akademija likovnih umjetnosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Sažetak
W. G. Sebald (1944 – 2001), one of the most distinctive writers of the late 20th century, was professor of the European literature at the University of East Anglia and the founding director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. He refused to designate his literary works as novels; instead he defined them as the “prose books of indeterminate kind”. In those works that exist at the intersection of novel, poetry, essay, travelogue and (auto)biography, Sebald practises a specific mode of writing with images, whether they be inserted reproductions of images of heterogeneous provenance or fascinating ekphrastic descriptions. Functioning as a kind of modulation motif, the famous or the less well known works of art often appear within the text's digressive narrative flow. This article is concerned with the performatives of ekphrastic description in Sebald's articulation of dialectical image and non-chronological time which is crucial in his political iconology based on Aby Warburg's and Walter Benjamin's legacy. Special attention is payed to Sebald's re-semantization of the famous works of visual arts in the procedure of outlining the historical transversals which point to the origns of twentieth-century genocidal politics in the history of European colonialism.
Ključne riječi
ekphrasis; dialectical image; perspective; historical transversals; dis-enactments; non-chronological time; colonialism; Holocaust; firestorms; natural history of destruction; political iconology
Hrčak ID:
304964
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Datum izdavanja:
29.6.2023.
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