Comparative Literature and the Historical Imaginary

1. Introduction: Comparative Readings in the Twenty-First Century
Kaisa Kaakinen

Part I. Outlining the Future: Peter Weiss’s Die Ästhetik des Widerstands and the Parataxis of History

2. Sensory Representations and Untimely Reference in Peter Weiss’s Die Ästhetik des Widerstands

Kaisa Kaakinen

3. Coordinates of Comparison in Die Ästhetik des Widerstands

Kaisa Kaakinen

Part II. “I Would Not Even Invent a Transition.” (Re-)Contextualizing Joseph Conrad

4. Imperial Comparison and Postcolonial Reading
Kaisa Kaakinen

5. Conrad as a Bridge
Kaisa Kaakinen

Part III. Analogy and the Narration of Trauma in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and Die Ringe des Saturn

6. Repetition and Digression: Sebald’s Narratives of Trauma
Kaisa Kaakinen

7. Configurations of the Present in Sebald
Kaisa Kaakinen

8. Conclusion: Present Futures
Kaisa Kaakinen

Keywords: Literature, European Literature, Comparative Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature