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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Leonida Kovač -- I. Sebald's Writings, History and Voids -- 1. W.G. Sebald's Cartographic Images -- Mapping the Historical Void -- Anna Seidl -- 2. Imaging the Uncanny Memory -- War and the Isenheim Altarpiece in 1917-19 -- Juliet Simpson -- 3. The Worlds of Eternal Present -- The Quest for the Hidden Patterns of Baroque Thought in Sebald's literature -- Jelena Todorović -- 4. Seeing the Void? -- On Visual Representations of "Arisierungen," Forced Absences, and Forms of Taking Inventory in the Installation Invent arisiert by Arno Gisinger -- Veronika Rudorfer -- II. Memory and Art in and Through Sebald -- 5. Monument and Memory -- Mark Edwards -- 6. In the Labyrinth -- Sebald's (Postwar) French Connections -- Catherine Annabel -- 7. Leaning Images -- Reading Nasta Rojc and Ana Mušćet -- Sandra Križić Roban -- 8. Working with Images -- Documentary Photography in the Oeuvres of Mike Kelley and W.G. Sebald -- Francesca Verga -- 9. Ghostwriting and Artists' Texts -- Raqs Media Collective's We Are Here, But Is It Now? -- Ilse van Rijn -- III. Writing with Images: Academic Practices and / as Ethical Commitment -- 10. Models for Word and Image -- Georges Rodenbach to Christian Bök -- James Elkins -- 11. On Writing -- Propositions for Art History as Literary Practice -- Tilo Reifenstein -- 12. Memory, Word, and Image in Sebald and Joyce -- Towards a Transhistorical Ethics Communicated Through Minor Interventions in the Form of the Printed Book -- Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes -- 13. Sebald's Toute la mémoire du monde -- Leonida Kovač -- 14. As a Dog Finds a Spear -- Hilde Van Gelder -- List of Contributors -- Index -- List of Figures -- Figure 1 Diagram, W.G. Sebald. Austerlitz. New York: Modern Library, 2001, p. 31 -- Figure 2 Map, W.G. Sebald, W.G. The Rings of Saturn. New York: New Directions, 1999, p. 148.