Nature Writing. Zur Brauchbarkeit eines neuen Gattungsbegriffs für das Verständnis von Sebalds Prosa am Beispiel des Essays Die Alpen im Meer
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Deutschsprachiges Nature Writing von Goethe bis zur Gegenwart : Kontroversen, Positionen, Perspektiven. ed. / Gabriele Dürbeck; Christine Kanz. Berlin: J.B. Metzler, 2020. p. 265-280 (Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft).
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T1 - Nature Writing. Zur Brauchbarkeit eines neuen Gattungsbegriffs für das Verständnis von Sebalds Prosa am Beispiel des Essays Die Alpen im Meer
AU - Albes, Claudia
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In an attempt to clarify whether the concept of Nature Writing can contribute to a new understanding of W. G. Sebald’s prose works, the present article explores Sebald’s essay Die Alpen im Meer, published in 2001, in which the author records impressions of his visit to the island of Corsica some years earlier. The article concludes that this work cannot unreservedly be considered a “Naturessay” (as defined by Simone Schröder 2018), for two major reasons. One is that the essay is a semi-fictional text in which Sebald attempts to prove his thesis about “man’s guilt in nature’s wholesale destruction” by falsifying sources in numerous instances. A second reason is that, instead of describing nature, he uses an allegorical way of writing, offering the reader a miscellany of poetical emblems. These emblems, by allowing fragmentary glimpses of the loss of nature, tell the story of its destruction while at the same time inviting us to wonder where guilt-laden man is going.
AB - In an attempt to clarify whether the concept of Nature Writing can contribute to a new understanding of W. G. Sebald’s prose works, the present article explores Sebald’s essay Die Alpen im Meer, published in 2001, in which the author records impressions of his visit to the island of Corsica some years earlier. The article concludes that this work cannot unreservedly be considered a “Naturessay” (as defined by Simone Schröder 2018), for two major reasons. One is that the essay is a semi-fictional text in which Sebald attempts to prove his thesis about “man’s guilt in nature’s wholesale destruction” by falsifying sources in numerous instances. A second reason is that, instead of describing nature, he uses an allegorical way of writing, offering the reader a miscellany of poetical emblems. These emblems, by allowing fragmentary glimpses of the loss of nature, tell the story of its destruction while at the same time inviting us to wonder where guilt-laden man is going.
KW - Sprachwissenschaften
KW - Literaturwissenschaft
UR - https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783662622124
UR - http://d-nb.info/1214313086
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-662-62213-1_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-662-62213-1_14
M3 - Aufsätze in Sammelwerken
SN - 978-3-662-62212-4
T3 - Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft
SP - 265
EP - 280
BT - Deutschsprachiges Nature Writing von Goethe bis zur Gegenwart
A2 - Dürbeck, Gabriele
A2 - Kanz, Christine
PB - J.B. Metzler
CY - Berlin
ER -