Bøger af Uwe Schutte

For over forty years now, the Slovenian music, performance and art collective Laibach has captivated its audience with totalitarian symbolism and a constantly shifting and improbable range of musical styles from industrial to rock and neo-classical music. Laibach not only critically question political thought structures, but equally examine state and religious power systems. Additionally, culture-industrial marketing mechanisms and ideological manipulation strategies of popular culture firmly belong to their self-appointed critical mission. In this volume, essays in English and German scrutinize the elusive phenomenon that is Laibach using a variety of perspectives and approaches, ranging from the group's industrial beginnings in the early 1980s up to its 2022 project, the symphonic work Alamut.

The German academic and writer W. G. Sebald made an astounding ascent into the canon of world literature. In this volume, leading experts from both the English- and the German-speaking worlds explore his celebrated prose works published in the short span from 1996 to his premature death in 2001. Special attention is paid to Sebald's unpublished texts and books awaiting translation into English. The volume - illustrated with many unpublished archive images - scrutinizes the dual nature of Sebald's life and work, located between Germany and England, academic and literary writing, vilification and idolization. Through nearly forty essays on a broad range of topics, W. G. Sebald in Context achieves a revision of our understanding of Sebald, defying many clichés about him. Particular attention is paid to the manifold ways in which Sebald's writings exerted a legacy far beyond literature, especially in the areas of art, cinema, and popular music.

W.G. Sebald gilt international als der bedeutendste deutsche Schriftsteller des späten 20. Jahrhunderts. Der früh nach England emigrierte Sebald war ein eigensinniger Auslandsgermanist, dessen Prosawerk seit seinem vorzeitigen Tod im Jahr 2001 nicht nur in der Literaturwissenschaft eine außerordentliche Resonanz gefunden hat. Dieses Studienbuch des Sebald-Experten Uwe Schütte bietet eine so umfassende wie kritische Darstellung des literarischen Werks und erschließt die umfangreiche Sekundärliteratur. UWE SCHÜTTE studierte an der LMU München und der University of East Anglia, Norwich/UK, wo er bei W.G. Sebald promovierte. Er ist Reader in German an der Aston University, Birmingham/UK und Privatdozent an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, außerdem Autor bzw. Herausgeber von mehr als 20 Buchpublikationen, darunter Interventionen. Literaturkritik als Widerspruch bei W.G. Sebald (2014), Figurationen. Zum lyrischen Werk von W.G. Sebald (2014), Über W.G. Sebald. Beiträge zu einem neuen Bild des Autors (2016) und Annäherungen. Sieben Essays über W.G. Sebald (2019).

This accessible critical introduction, written by a leading expert, highlights W.G. Sebald's double role as writer and academic.