14: André Malraux and Oswald Spengler: The Poetics of Metamorphosis

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Poetics after Auschwitz
6. 1: The Poetics of Silence: Nelly Sachs 17
7. 2: “Flaschenpost” and “Wurfholz”: Reflections on Paul Celan’s Poems and Poetics 35
8. 3: History and Nature in Motion: Paradigms of Transformation in the Postwar Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann 53
9. 4: Mourning as Remembrance: Writing as Figuration and Defiguration in the Poetry of Rose Ausländer 69
10. 5: On the Fringes: Mistrust as Commitment in the Poetics of Ilse Aichinger 88
11. 6: Nazi Terror and the Poetical Potential of Dreams: Charlotte Beradt’s Das Dritte Reich des Traums 107
12. Part II: Tradition and Transgression
13. 7: Between Kahlschlag and New Sensibilities: Notes toward a Poetics of Thought after Gottfried Benn 123
14. 8: “Barely explicable power of the word, that separates and conjoins”: Gottfried Benn’s Problems of Poetry and Its Poetology of Existence 137
15. 9: Concrete Poetry 158
16. 10: Heiner Müller: Discontinuity and Transgression 170
17. 11: Let’s Begin, Again: History, Intertext, and Rupture in Heiner Müller’s Germania Cycle 180
18. 12: Rupture, Tradition, and Achievement in Thomas Kling’s Poetics and Poetry 200
19. Part III: Comparative Explorations in European Poetics
20. 13: Sartre and His Literary Alter Ego Mathieu in Les Chemins de la liberté (1938–49): From the Roads to an Abstract Freedom to the Roads of Authenticity 217
21. 14: André Malraux and Oswald Spengler: The Poetics of Metamorphosis 236
22. 15: Freud’s Brain in the Snow: Catastrophe and Creativity in the Poetics of Danilo Kiš 253
23. 16: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and the Aesthetics of Ohnmacht 267
24. Works Cited 273
25. Notes on the Contributors 295
26. Index 301