A Place Revisited

A Place Revisited

From the “Editor’s Preface” (by Inge Leimberg):

“When, in 1991, I revisited my hometown Halberstadt after a 35 years’ absence, the impact was of a kind to make me wish for seeing the motif or theme of revisiting a place reflected in literature. […] [T]he authors have responded to the overall thematic question in different ways: to some of them the revisited place is a locus of memory, to others “revisiting” means a writer’s focusing on a certain place and, last but not least, the revisiting of a place is found and discussed as a thematic unit in a literary work. This last aspect is what I had originally thought of, only to realize, by way of bibliographical research, that the motif or theme is as good as critically unexplored; it is generally taken to mean a critic’s turning (again) to a literary subject.

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