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    The Tactics Of Confrontation: Documentary Epistemology In The Fiction Of W.G. Sebald

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    Title
    The Tactics Of Confrontation: Documentary Epistemology In The Fiction Of W.G. Sebald
    Author
    Pieroni, Adam
    Date
    December 2017
    Subject
    Friedländer
    historiography
    Holocaust
    literature
    
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13013/556
    Abstract
    Of the many enigmatic features of W.G. Sebald's fiction, perhaps the most perplexing is the author's uncanny ability to convey a topic while avoiding explicit reference to it. This is especially true in regard to the Holocaust, a topic Sebald rarely labels with terms traditionally associated with its history, but which arguably constitutes the ethical core of the works. Partially in response to historian Saul Frieländer's suggestion that literature may potentially offer cohesion to "the growing fragmentation of the history of the Nazi period" ("Trauma" 52), this thesis investigates the relationship between Sebald's unique stylistics and its representation of the Holocaust. Through close readings of Sebald's work, I demonstrate that Sebald's and Friendländer's texts are undergirded by similar ethical and epistemological positions, which in turn help explain their significant rhetorical differences. Indeed, the stark contrasts of those differences speaks to the continuing potency of the events to impose a disjunctive effect (despite ethical affinities of the authors) on Holocaust representation.
    Advisor
    Mulman, Lisa
    Department
    English
    Degree
    Master of Arts (MA)
    Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT)
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