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German and European Poetics after the Holocaust: Crisis and Creativity (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Gert Hofmann
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Hardcover. New essays on poetical and theoretical responses to the Holocaust's rupture of German and European civilization. Editor(s): Hofmann, Gert; MagShamhrain, Rachel; Pajevic, Marko; Shields, Michael. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 36. Weight in Grams: 620.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Camden House
Condition
New
Series
Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571132901
SKU
V9781571132901
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Reviews for German and European Poetics after the Holocaust: Crisis and Creativity (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
[A] thorough and thoughtful engagement with poetological developments after the 1945 rupture (or lack thereof) and an excellent source of in-depth, nuanced readings of Adorno . . . . [T]he editors are to be congratulated on raising timely (perhaps too timely?) and important questions, even if all of the answers to these questions are not (yet) forthcoming.
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