German and European Poetics After the Holocaust: Crisis and Creativity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781571132901)

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 Ausländer, Charlotte Beradt, Thomas Kling, Heiner Müller, 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, André Malraux, and Danilo Kis and a consideration of the aesthetics of Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah. CONTRIBUTORS: Chris Bezzel, Manuel Bragança, Gisela Dischner, Rüdiger Görner, Stefan Hajduk, Gert Hofmann, Aniela Knoblich, Rachel MagShamhráin, Marton Marko, Elaine Martin, Barry Murnane, Marko Pajevic, Tatjana Petzer, Renata Plaice, Annette Runte, Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, Michael Shields, Peter Tame. VOLUME EDITORS: GERT HOFMANN is a Lecturer in German, Comparative Literature, Drama, and Film and RACHEL MAGSHAMHRÁIN is a Lecturer in German, Film, and Comparative Literature, both at University College Cork; MARKO PAJEVIĆ is a Lecturer in German at Queen's University Belfast; MICHAEL SHIELDS is a Lecturer in German at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Author: Gert Hofmann
ISBN-10: 1571132902
ISBN-13: 9781571132901
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2011
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.30w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2012