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He is the author of Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema..
Kilbourn is an associate professor of English and film studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada.
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About the author RUSSELL J.
In its consideration of Sebald\'s place in twentieth-century literature and after, Kilbourn\'s book engages with such predecessors as Nabokov, Kafka, Conrad, and Beckett, concluding with comparisons with contemporaries Claudio Magris and Alice Munro.
It critiques the possibility of metaphysical or eroto-salvific models of redemption, arguing against the temptation of psychoanalytic interpretations, as Sebald\'s work of memory rejects the discourse of redemption in favor of restitution.
Sebald\'s Postsecular Redemption demonstrates Sebald\'s relevance for affect theory, new materialism, and the posthuman turn.
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Alongside Sebald studies\' traditional subjects, which include memory, historiography, Sebald\'s critique of an image-based culture, and his highly intermedial poetics, W.
Out of the spectacle of humankind\'s slow-motion self-destruction, a "Sebaldian subject"--masculine, melancholic, ironic, potentially queer-emerges across the four prose narratives.
He shows that Sebald\'s work stands between modernism\'s ironic hopes for redemption and whatever comes after.
Kilbourn traces the author\'s abiding preoccupation with redemption in a world that has been described as postsecular.
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Sebald\'s four works of prose fiction--The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, The Emigrants, and Austerlitz--Russell J.
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