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Essay
In what ways do the novels Waterland and Austerlitz present the two world wars as challenges to philosophies of historical progress?
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--8December 20252010/2011BAvailable in bundle
- An analysis of the way in which progress in relation to WWI and WWII is presented in the novels, Waterland (Graham Swift) and Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald). 
 
The notion of human progress is challenged by WWI and WWII and the impact it has on the lives of the characters in the novels. The wars resemble a descent into animalistic primitivism and the collapse of the progress of the enlightenment.
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Lecture notes
Austerlitz novel notes
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--4December 20252008/2009Available in bundle
- Notes covering: 
- Life and career of Sebald 
- Sebald and War 
- Sebald and genre 
- Place of WWII and the Holocaust in Austerlitz 
- Nazism
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Summary
PowerPoint presentation covering Sebald's book Austerlitz.
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--30January 20262010/2011Available in bundle
- PowerPoint presentation covering: 
 
- Sebald's life and career 
- Sebald and war 
- Austerlitz 
- Narrative style 
- War, the Holocaust and ideas of progress
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