German and European Poetics After the Holocaust
Title | German and European Poetics After the Holocaust PDF eBook |
Author | Gert Hofmann |
Publisher | Camden House |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1571132902 |
New essays on poetical and theoretical responses to the Holocaust's rupture of German and European civilization. Crisis presents chances for change and creativity: Adorno's famous dictum that writing poetry after Auschwitz would be barbaric has haunted discourse on poetics, but has also given rise to poetic and theoretical acts of resistance. The essays in this volume discuss postwar poetics in terms of new poetological directions and territory rather than merely destruction of traditions. Embedded in the discourse triggered by Adorno, the volume's foci include the work of Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn, and Ingeborg Bachmann. Other German writers discussed are Ilse Aichinger, Rose Ausländer, Charlotte Beradt, Thomas Kling, Heiner Müller, and Nelly Sachs; concrete poetry is also treated. The final section offers comparative views of the poetics of European literary figures such as Jean Paul Sartre, André Malraux, and Danilo Kis and a consideration of the aesthetics of Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah. Contributors: Chris Bezzel, Manuel Bragança, Gisela Dischner, Rüdiger Görner, Stefan Hajduk, Gert Hofmann, Aniela Knoblich, Rachel MagShamhráin, Marton Marko, Elaine Martin, Barry Murnane, Marko Pajevic, Tatjana Petzer, Renata Plaice, Annette Runte, Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, Michael Shields, Peter Tame. Gert Hofmann is a Lecturer in German, Comparative Literature, Drama, and Film and Rachel MagShamhráin is a Lecturer in German, Film, and Comparative Literature, both at University College Cork; Marko Pajevic is a Lecturer in German at Queen's University Belfast; Michael Shields is a Lecturer in German at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Traumatic Verses
Title | Traumatic Verses PDF eBook |
Author | Andrés José Nader |
Publisher | Camden House |
Total Pages | 278 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781571133755 |
"Traumatic Verses provides psychoanalytically informed close readings of a range of poems and discusses their significance for aesthetic theory and for research on the camps. It also tells the stories behind the composition and preservation of these poems and the history of their publication since 1945. Most of the poems appear here for the first time in English translation along with the original texts.This book fills a gap left by literary historians, who have mostly ignored writings from the camps and avoided careful scrutiny of literature produced under the Nazi regime. Studies of trauma have concentrated on post-traumatic experiences; discussions of aesthetics after the Holocaust have neglected the issue of the artistic impulse in the camps. On both counts this book constitutes a unique contribution to scholarship, showing that, when read attentively, the poems written in the camps are invaluable sites for confronting the Nazi past." --book jacket.
Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
Title | Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Celan |
Publisher | W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | 426 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780393049992 |
A bilingual collection of poetry by the German poet considered by many the major European poet since 1945 features a selection of lyrics, previously unpublished poems, and essays and speeches dealing with his Jewish heritage, alienation from society, and the nature of writing.
Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters
Title | Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Wood |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2019-06-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1611462932 |
Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters contains essays focusing on the roles of drama and poetry in Anglo-German exchange in the Sattelzeit. It offers new perspectives on the movement of texts and ideas across genres and cultures, the formation and reception of poetic personae, and the place of illustration in cross-cultural, textual exchange.
Collected Prose
Title | Collected Prose PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Celan |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 82 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | German prose literature |
ISBN | 9780415967235 |
"Paul Celan (1920-1970) stands as one of the greatest post-war European poets, a writer whose painful struggle with the possibilities and limitations of German, his native language, has helped to define the response of poetry in the aftermath of the Holocaust." "The writings and aphorisms on poetry and art illuminate the sources of his language: he explores the condition of being a stranger in the world, the necessity - and limitation - of discourse, enlarging our understanding of the poet and his vocation. A spare and reluctant prose writer, Celan speaks with a quiet authority that insists on the centrality of poetry in the modern world."--BOOK JACKET.
The Terror of Our Days
Title | The Terror of Our Days PDF eBook |
Author | Harriet L. Parmet |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
For these poets, who must accommodate what they cannot ignore or deny, writing becomes a moral obligation as commemoration, catharsis, atonement, history, insistence on human sensitivities, resistance to brutalization, indifference, and flight from consequences."--BOOK JACKET.
Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium
Title | Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Ellison |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2022-04-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030954471 |
This book is the first comparative study of novels by Patrick Modiano, W. G. Sebald, and Antonio Muñoz Molina. Drawing on many literary figures, movements, and traditions, from the Spanish Golden Age, to German Romanticism, to French philosophy, via Jewish modernist literature, Ian Ellison offers a fresh perspective on European fiction published around the turn of the millennium. Reflecting on what makes European fiction European, this book examines how certain novels understand themselves to be culturally and historically late, expressing a melancholy awareness of how the past and present are irreconcilable. Within this framework, however, it considers how backwards-facing, tradition-oriented self-consciousness, burdened by a sense of exhaustion in European culture and the violence of its past, may yet suggest the potential for re-enchantment in the face of obsolescence.