`Woods, trees and the spaces in between'

Abstract

Just as the top layer in a case of herrings is crushed and spoilt, and the fruit next to the crate is bruised and worthless, so too in every generation there are certain men who are on the outside and are made to suffer from the packing case, who only protect those who are in the middle.

Odyssean identities in modern cultures: the journey home

“…5. The nod to the Odyssey is registered by the narrator after finding the visiting card ("It was a while before I understood what he meant by Ithaca") and also by scholars (Anderson 2003, 108;Zilcosky 2004, 113;Sheppard 2009;cf. Zilcosky [2006, 691-93] for more possible Odyssean intertexts).…”

Writing and the West German Protest Movements: The Textual Revolution

“…In addition, this action drew attention to a more specific theme in protest culture, namely a preoccupation with the high literature which the protest movements are commonly believed to have rejected. 37 This apparently negative anti-authoritarian attitude towards literature was due to (at least) six reasons. 36 The use of quotation marks is in the source text, to denote Kopkind's words, referenced as A.…”

“…Dutschke's words, like other statements of his of this time, show his admiration for and wish to identify with US popular culture, notably that of African-American movements, and post-colonial writings. 37 These currents are explored extensively in Kursbuch, 15. See also, for example, Lüdke (ed.…”

The Stateless Novel

“…Namely, the bifurcation of Sebald's oeuvre into "critical" and "literary" halves has become an axiomatic starting point for the majority of critics. This view, endorsed by Sebald (2011a: 236), was recently codified in the introductory lines of Saturn's Moons: W. G. Sebald-A Handbook: "This publication [of Nach Der Nature in 1988] marks the moment when Sebald the university lecturer, academic researcher and critic, known to his friends and colleagues as Max, emerged publicly as the writer W. G. Sebald" (Catling and Hibbitt 2011: 1).2 This quasi-ontological distinction is reinforced in the bibliography published in the same volume (Sheppard 2011). The most authoritative English-language bibliography to date, it divides "Literary" works from "Critical" ones, with the former further 1.…”

“…4. On the many problems plaguing Sebald's Lizentiatsarbeit, see Sheppard 2009: "Here, careless and inconsistent footnoting, inaccurate, selective and tendentious citation, an inattention to punctuation, orthographic consistency and the strict rules of German grammar, a moralizing tone, generalized and unsubstantiated opinion, a refusal to read piles of secondary literature, and a fiercely polemical stance all point to someone who is asserting his right as a critic to ignore established authority and be thoroughly subjective, who is forcing his chosen subject into his own mould and who is fiercely antipathetic to 'Germany,' its literary metonyms, and its hierarchical university system" (87).…”