Staff in the Department of German

Professor Jonathan Long - all publications

Books: authored

• 2007 W. G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity, Edinburgh University Press, 210 pp.
• 2001 The Novels of Thomas Bernhard: Form and its Function, Camden House, 232 pp.

Books: edited

• 2009 (co-edited with Noble, Andrea & Welch, Edward) Photography: Theoretical Snapshots, Routledge.
• 2005 (co-edited with Knight, Peter) Fakes and Forgeries, Conmen and Counterfeits, Cambridge Scholars Press, 233 pp.
• 2004 (co-edited with Whitehead, Anne) W. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion, Edinburgh University Press, 256 pp.
• Forthcoming (co-edited with Noble, Andrea & Welch, Edward) Rethinking Photography.
• Forthcoming (co-edited with Fuchs, Anne) W. G. Sebald and the Poetics of History, Königshausen und Neumann.

Books: sections

• 2006 'Disziplin und Geständnis: Ansätze zu einer Foucaultschen Sebald-Lektüre', in Öhlschläger, Claudia & Niehaus, Michael (eds.), W.G. Sebald. Politische Archäologie und melancholische Bastelei, Erich Schmidt, pp. 217-237
• 2006 'The Austrian Novel since 1945', in Kohl, Katrin & Robertson, Ritchie (eds.), A History of Austrian Literature, Camden House, pp. 223-245
• 2006 'Thomas Bernhard's Die Macht der Gewohnheit', in Hutchinson, Peter (ed.), Landmarks in German Comedy, Lang, pp. 211-226
• 2005 'Von Gesellschaftskritik zur Darstellungskritik: Frauengestalten in den biografischen Texten Dieter Kühns', in von Zimmermann, Christian & von Zimmermann, Nina (eds.), Frauenbiographik: Lebensbeschreibungen und Porträts, G. Narr, pp. 323-335
• 2003 'Narration and Repetition in the Late Novels of Thomas Bernhard', in Fetz, Gerald (ed.), Thomas Bernhard: Retrospective Essays, Ariadne Press.
• 2002 'The Lost Gender Politics of Katharina Blum; or, Wie Gewalt entstehen und wie sie verführen kann', in Schwartz, Agatha & de Diego, Fernando (eds.), Rethinking Violence and Patriarchy for the New Millennium, University of Ottawa Press, pp. 45-61
• 2002 'Ungleichzeitigkeiten: Class Relationships in Thomas Bernhard's Fiction', in Konzett, Matthias (ed.), Companion to Thomas Bernhard, Camden House, pp. 187-208
• 2000 'Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser and Binjamin Wilkomirski's Bruchstücke: Two Best-Selling Responses to the Holocaust', in Parkes, Stuart, Preece, Julian & Williams, Arthur (eds.), German Language Literature Today: International and Popular?, Peter Lang, pp. 49-66
• 1999 'Dieter Kühn and the Speculative Biography: N, Die Präsidentin, Josephine', in Thomas, Neil E. (ed.), German at the Millennium, Durham Modern Languages Series, pp. 243-269
• 1998 'History as Biography as Fiction: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Marbot: Eine Biographie', in Parkes, Stuart,, Preece, Julian & Williams, Arthur (eds.), Whose Story? Continuities in Contemporary German-language Literature, Peter Lang, pp. 31-50

Edited works: contributions

• 1999 'Jean Améry; Dieter Hildebrandt; Wolfgang Hildesheimer and Dieter Kühn', in Sandford, John (ed.), Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture, Routledge.

Essays in edited volumes

• 2010 'Bernhard, Frost', in Hutchinson, Peter & Minden, Michael (eds.), Landmarks in the German Novel (2), Peter Lang, pp. 7-24
• 2010 'W. G. Sebald: The Anti-Tourist', in Zisselsberger, Markus (ed.), The Undiscover'd Country: W. G. Sebald and the Poetics of Travel, Camden House, pp. 63-91
• 2009 'W. G. Sebald: The Ambulatory Narrative and the Poetics of Digression', in Fischer, Gerhard (ed.), W. G. Sebald: Schreiben ex patria/ Expatriate Writing, Rodopi, pp. 61-71
• 2006 'Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe: Photography, Narrative, and the Claims of Postmemory', in Fuchs, Anne., Cosgrove, Mary. & Grote, Georg. (eds.), German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film and Discourse since 1990, Camden House, pp. 147-165
• 2004 (co-authored with Musolff, Andreas, Manz, Stefan & Saric, Liljiana) 'Discourses of Identity in Britain, Germany and Eastern Europe', in (ed.), Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Multilingual Matters, pp. 361-368

Journal papers: academic

• 2012 'Photography/Topography: Viewing Berlin, 1880/2000', New German Critique 39, pp. 25-45
• 2011 'In the Contact Zone: W.G. Sebald and the Ethnographic Imagination', Journal of European Studies 41, pp. 413-430
• 2008 'Paratextual Profusion: Photography and Text in Bertolt Brecht's War Primer', Poetics Today 29, pp. 197-224
• 2004 'Intercultural Identities in Norbert Gstrein's Die englischen Jahre and W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten', Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 25, pp. 512-528
• 2003 'Casual Brutalities: Hans Lebert's Die Wolfshaut, Gerhard Fritsch's Fasching, and Austrian Collective Memory', Austrian Studies 11, pp. 85-101
• 2003 'History, Narrative, and Photography in W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten', Modern language review 98, pp. 117-137
• 2002 ''Die Teufelskunst unserer Zeit?' Photographic Negotiations in Thomas Bernhard's Ausloschung', Modern Austrian Literature 35, pp. 1-17
• 2001 'Compensation for History? Dieter Kühn's Beethoven und der schwarze Geiger', Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 54, pp. 111-127
• 2001 'Power, Desire, Performance: Narrative Exchanges in Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Masante', Neophilologus 85, pp. 601-619
• 2001 'Resisting Bernhard: Women and Violence in Das Kalkwerk, Ja and Auslöschung', Seminar 37, pp. 33-52
• 1999 'Time and Narrative: Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Tynset and Masante', German Life and Letters 52, pp. 457-474
• 1997 'Einsamer alter Vulkan: Versuch über Wyndham Lewis und Die Rache für Liebe', Sprache im technischen Zeitalter 35, pp. 382-392
• 1996 'Veracity, Mendacity, Absurdity: Form and its Function in Thomas Bernhard's Der Stimmenimitator', Forum for Modern Language Studies 32, pp. 343-353

Translated: Chapter in Edited Book

• 1998 (trans.). Ujma, Christina, 'Der Stille und der schwärmende Ton: Notes on Block and Brecht in the Twenties and Thirties (Der Stille und der schwärmende Ton.)'. In Bertold Brecht Centenary Essays. Giles, Steve & Livingstone, Rodney (ed.). Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp.