Thesis Title: W. G. Sebald and the Work of Narrative Melancholia
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Professor Sue Vice
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About
In 2010 I completed a thesis at the University of Sheffield on the narrative poetics of W. G. Sebald. I argued that Sebald's poetics are influenced by the structural desire of psychoanalytic melancholia, and that this manifests itself across three main conceptual areas: the idea of diaspora, allegory, and Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of novelistic chronotopes, particularly in relation to Sebald's image-text practice.
My interests include: representations of the Holocaust; psychoanalysis and psychiatry; theories of photography; the flâneur; cities and landscapes; psychogeography; intertextuality and influence; queer theory; Marxism.
I am currently preparing an essay on 'humourous melancholia' and irony in Holocaust representation from the viewpoint of the second and third generations.
I am a member of The Free University of Liverpool.
