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Writing from the Periphery: W. G. Sebald and Outsider Art
Etzler, Melissa Starr. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2014
In: Etzler, Melissa Starr. (2014). Writing from the Periphery: W. G. Sebald and Outsider Art. UC Berkeley: German. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1979c8pp (2014)
Abstract: This study focuses on a major aspect of literature and culture in the later twentieth century: the intersection of psychiatry, madness and art. As the antipsychiatry movement became an international intervention, W. G. Sebald's fascination with psychopathology rapidly developed. While Sebald collected many materials on Outsider Artists and has several annotated books on psychiatry in his personal library, I examine how Sebald's thought and writings, both academic and literary, were particularly influenced by Ernst Herbeck's poems. Herbeck, a diagnosed schizophrenic, spent decades under the care of Dr. Leo Navratil at the psychiatric institute in Maria Gugging. Sebald became familiar with Herbeck via the book, Schizophrenie und Sprache (1966), in which Navratil analyzed his patients' creative writings in order to illustrate commonalities between pathological artistic productions and canonical German literature, thereby blurring the lines between genius and madness. In 1980, Sebald travelled to Vienna to meet Ernst Herbeck and this experience inspired him to compose two academic essays on Herbeck and the semi-fictionalized account of their encounter in his novel Vertigo (1990).In this study, I reveal how Sebald incorporated Herbeck within his works over a thirty year period in order to provide a social commentary. Sebald looks to Herbeck to examine what had become the standards of normality in Western Germany following the Second World War from a critical perspective. Not only is Sebald's empathetic identification with the outsider Herbeck in itself a political and social act of protest, but I show how Sebald recognized in Herbeck's language an embodiment of his own viewpoints regarding (eco)politics and critical theory. Since his understanding of Herbeck is informed by a number of disciplines, various cultural discourses assist in my clarification: I turn to Sebald's interest in the Frankfurt School thinkers, such as Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno; Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's ideas on minor literature; political viewpoints as posed by filmmakers such as Alexander Kluge and Werner Herzog; and also the socio-anthropological writings of Pierre Bertaux, Michel Foucault and Claude Lévi-Strauss. I furthermore provide close readings of Herbeck's poems to argue that Sebald imitates Herbeck's style. Focusing initially on archival material, I locate within Sebald's unpublished poetry and prose several thematic, linguistic and semantic characteristics which are typical of Herbeck's poetry. I then expand this analysis to incorporate how these features also reappear in Sebald's published novels. In uncovering underexplored intertextuality, this study sheds new light both on Sebald's novels, since recognizing Herbeck's voice within his prose calls for a reevaluation of what is "Sebaldian", as well as on the broader, yet underexplored cultural movement from which I focus on Herbeck as the apex. It also locates Sebald's key political ideas and his values concerning poetics and morality as derivatives of a particular historical and psychological discourse.
Keyword: Ernst Herbeck; Germanic literature; Psychopathology; W. G. Sebald
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The Origins of Beowulf: Studies in Textual Criticism and Literary History
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Foundational Ambiguities: Metaphor, Translation, and Intertextuality in Hans Blumenberg's Metaphorology.
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Encountering Others, Imagining Modernity: Primitivism in German Ethnology, Art, and Theory.
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Vernacular psychologies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English
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Translating German novellas into English: A comparative study
Schweissinger, Marc J.. - : Peter Lang, 2014
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The reception of Jane Austen in Europe
Mandal, Anthony; Southam, Brian. - : Bloomsbury, 2014
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W.G. Sebald and the Cinematic Imagination
Pasic, Sabina. - 2014
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Veränderte Umwelt: Neue Leseweisen im Anthropozän
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Sexuated Topology and the Suspension of Meaning: A Non-Hermeneutical Phenomenological Approach to Textual Analysis
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A semantic study of German and Chinese demonstratives
Lin, Lin. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2013
In: Lin, Lin. (2013). A semantic study of German and Chinese demonstratives. UCLA: Scandinavian Section 0834. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9v40c1w2 (2013)
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The Impact of Idealism: The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought: Volume 3: Aesthetics and Literature
Cooper, Ian. - : Cambridge University Press, 2013
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In the Eyes of Others: The Dialectics of German-Jewish and Yiddish Modernisms.
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Pure Violence on the Stage of Exception: Representations of Revolutions in Georg Büchner, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Heiner Müller, and Elfriede Jelinek
Hengge, Jan. - 2013
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From rubble to revolutions and raves: Literary interrogations of German media ecologies
Werbeck, Kai-Uwe. - : The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012
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Die Darstellung des Luftkriegs bei Hans Erich Nossack, Heinrich Boell, Alexander Kluge und Dieter Forte
Fink, Fabian. - : The University of Alabama, 2012
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Die Vermessung „Neu-Seellands“: Schreibweisen der Psychologien in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Jahrhundertwende
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Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialectic: Scots poetic translation and the second generation modern Scottish renaissance (c.1940-1981)
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The Hamlet zone: reworking Hamlet for European cultures
Owen, Ruth J.. - : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012
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Apperception and Linguistic Contact between German and Afrikaans
Bergerson, Jeremy. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2011
In: Bergerson, Jeremy. (2011). Apperception and Linguistic Contact between German and Afrikaans. UC Berkeley: German. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8sr6157f (2011)
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