German and European Poetics after the Holocaust: Crisis and Creativity

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German and European Poetics after the Holocaust

Crisis and Creativity

Edited by: Gert Hofmann , Rachel MagShamhráin and Marko Pajević
With contributions by: Aniela Knoblich , Annette Runte , Barry Murnane , Chris Bezzel , Elaine Martin , Gert Hofmann , Gisela Dischner , Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa , Manuel Braganca , Marko Pajević , Marton Marko , Michael Shields , Peter Tame , Rachel MagShamhráin , Renata Plaice , Ruediger Goerner , Stefan Hajduk and Tatjana Petzer

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2011

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Volume 100 | Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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New essays on poetical and theoretical responses to the Holocaust's rupture of German and European civilization.

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Literary Studies German Literature German Literature, general

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Gert Hofmann, Rachel MagShamhráin, Marko Pajević and Michael Shields Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Poetics after Auschwitz
1: The Poetics of Silence: Nelly Sachs Elaine Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2: “Flaschenpost” and “Wurfholz”: Reflections on Paul Celan’s Poems and Poetics Gisela Dischner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
3: History and Nature in Motion: Paradigms of Transformation in the Postwar Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann Marton Marko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
4: Mourning as Remembrance: Writing as Figuration and Defiguration in the Poetry of Rose Ausländer Annette Runte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
5: On the Fringes: Mistrust as Commitment in the Poetics of Ilse Aichinger Marko Pajević Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
6: Nazi Terror and the Poetical Potential of Dreams: Charlotte Beradt’s Das Dritte Reich des Traums Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Part II: Tradition and Transgression
7: Between Kahlschlag and New Sensibilities: Notes toward a Poetics of Thought after Gottfried Benn Rüdiger Görner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
8: “Barely explicable power of the word, that separates and conjoins”: Gottfried Benn’s Problems of Poetry and Its Poetology of Existence Stefan Hajduk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
9: Concrete Poetry Chris Bezzel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
10: Heiner Müller: Discontinuity and Transgression Renata Plaice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
11: Let’s Begin, Again: History, Intertext, and Rupture in Heiner Müller’s Germania Cycle Barry Murnane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
12: Rupture, Tradition, and Achievement in Thomas Kling’s Poetics and Poetry Aniela Knoblich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Part III: Comparative Explorations in European Poetics
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 Manuel Bragança Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
14: André Malraux and Oswald Spengler: The Poetics of Metamorphosis Peter Tame Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
15: Freud’s Brain in the Snow: Catastrophe and Creativity in the Poetics of Danilo Kiš Tatjana Petzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
16: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and the Aesthetics of Ohnmacht Gert Hofmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Notes on the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301

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May 20, 2011

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9781571137661

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318

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781571137661

eBook ISBN: 9781571137661

Keywords for this book

Holocaust; poetical responses; theoretical responses; crisis; creativity; postwar poetics; poetological directions; Paul Celan; Gottfried Benn; Ingeborg Bachmann; concrete poetry; European literary figures; Claude Lanzmann; film Shoah

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German and European Poetics after the Holocaust

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