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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 Auslander, Charlotte Beradt, Thomas Kling, Heiner Muller, 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, Andre Malraux, and Danilo Kis and a consideration of the aesthetics of Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah. Contributors: Chris Bezzel, Manuel Braganca, Gisela Dischner, Rudiger Goerner, Stefan Hajduk, Gert Hofmann, Aniela Knoblich, Rachel MagShamhrain, 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 MagShamhrain 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.

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Author:   Gert Hofmann ,  Rachel MagShamhráin ,  Marko Pajević ,  Aniela Knoblich
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Camden House Inc
Volume:   v. 100
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.634kg
ISBN:  

9781571132901

ISBN 10:   1571132902
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   20 May 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction - Gert Hofmann and Rachel MagShamhráin and Marko Pajevic and Michael Shields The Poetics of Silence: Nelly Sachs - Elaine Martin ""Flaschenpost"" and ""Wurfholz"": Reflections on Paul Celan's Poems and Poetics - Gisela Dischner History and Nature in Motion: Paradigms of Transformation in the Postwar Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann - Marton Marko Mourning as Remembrance: Writing as Figuration and Defiguration in the Poetry of Rose Ausländer - Annette Runte On the Fringes: Mistrust as Commitment in the Poetics of Ilse Aichinger - Marko Pajevic Nazi Terror and the Poetical Potential of Dreams: Charlotte Beradt's Das Dritte Reich des Traums - Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa Between Kahlschlag and New Sensibilities: Notes toward a Poetics of Thought after Gottfried Benn - Rudiger Gorner ""Barely explicable power of the word, that separates and conjoins"": Gottfried Benn's Problems of Poetry and Its Poetology of Existence - Stefan Hajduk Concrete Poetry - Chris Bezzel Heiner Müller: Discontinuity and Transgression - Renata Plaice Let's Begin, Again: History, Intertext, and Rupture in Heiner Müller's Germania Cycle - Barry Murnane Rupture, Tradition, and Achievement in Thomas Kling's Poetics and Poetry - Aniela Knoblich 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 Braganca André Malraux and Oswald Spengler: The Poetics of Metamorphosis - Peter Tame Freud's Brain in the Snow: Catastrophe and Creativity in the Poetics of Danilo Kis - Tatjana Petzer Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and the Aesthetics of Ohnmacht - Gert Hofmann Works Cited Notes on the Contributors Index"

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