Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Theisen, Bianca

Titel

A Natural History of Destruction: W.G. Sebald's "The Rings of Saturn"

Ist Teil von

• MLN, 2006-04, Vol.121 (3), p.563-581

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Quelle

Bibliografía de la Literatura Española

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Theisen critiques W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn. In The Rings of Saturn, Sebald rediscovers those sixteenth- and seventeenth-century artists, thinkers, and authors such as Albrecht Durer, Thomas Browne, and Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, who tease the older saturation of meaning out of new rationalist or theoretical approaches, thereby pointing to the lack and insufficiency of mere reason, or who, as Stanley Fish suggests for Thomas Browne's case, artfully employ the "machinery of reason" as "the vehicle of its own abandonment."