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Sites of the Uncanny

Paul Celan, Specularity and the Visual Arts
  • Eric Kligerman
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2007
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Sites of the Uncanny: Paul Celan, Specularity and the Visual Arts is the first book-length study that examines Celan’s impact on visual culture. Exploring poetry’s relation to film, painting and architecture, this study tracks the transformation of Celan in postwar German culture and shows the extent to which his poetics accompany the country’s memory politics after the Holocaust. The book posits a new theoretical model of the Holocaustal uncanny – evolving out of a crossing between Celan, Freud, Heidegger and Levinas – that provides a map for entering other modes of Holocaust representations. After probing Celan’s critique of the uncanny in Heidegger, this study shifts to the translation of Celan’s uncanny poetics in Resnais’ film Night and Fog, Kiefer’s art and Libeskind’s architecture.

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Eric Kligerman, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.


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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
February 13, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9783110913934
Hardcover published on:
August 20, 2007
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110191356
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
11
Main content:
330
Illustrations:
19
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