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Sites of the uncanny : Paul Celan, specularity and the visual arts / Eric Kligerman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kligerman, Eric.
- Series:
- Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Germany.
- Popular culture.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the arts.
- Collective memory--Germany.
- Collective memory.
- Celan, Paul--Influence.
- Celan, Paul.
- Celan, Paul--Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sites of the Uncanny: Paul Celan, Specularity and the Visual Arts is the first book-length study that examines Celan's impact on visual culture. Exploring poetry's relation to film, painting and architecture, this study tracks the transformation of Celan in postwar German culture and shows the extent to which his poetics accompany the country's memory politics after the Holocaust. The book posits a new theoretical model of the Holocaustal uncanny - evolving out of a crossing between Celan, Freud, Heidegger and Levinas - that provides a map for entering other modes of Holocaust representations. After probing Celan's critique of the uncanny in Heidegger, this study shifts to the translation of Celan's uncanny poetics in Resnais' film Night and Fog, Kiefer's art and Libeskind's architecture.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Facing the Holocaust
- Chapter 1. Specular Disruptions-The Sublime, the Uncanny, and Empathic Identification
- Chapter 2. Catastrophe and the Uncanny in Heidegger's Fetishized Narrative
- Chapter 3. Broken Meridians-From Heidegger's Pathway to Celan's Judengasse
- Chapter 4. Celan's Cinematic: Anxiety of the Gaze in Nuit et Brouillard and "Engführung"
- Chapter 5. Re-Figuring Celan in the Paintings of Anselm Kiefer
- Chapter 6. Ghostly Demarcations-Translating Paul Celan's Poetics in Daniel Libeskind's Architectural Space
- Conclusion. Mnemosyne and the Ruins of History
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-325) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783110913934
- 3110913933
- OCLC:
- 811406208
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