Poetic affairs : Celan, Grunbein, Brodsky / Michael Eskin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eskin, Michael.

Series:

Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics

Verbal art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996--Criticism and interpretation.

Brodsky, Joseph.

Celan, Paul--Criticism and interpretation.

Celan, Paul.

Grünbein, Durs--Criticism and interpretation.

Grünbein, Durs.

Poetics.

Subjectivity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Poetic Affairs deals with the complex and fascinating interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920-70), the Leningrad native, US poet laureate, and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky (1940-96), and the most significant contemporary German poet, Durs Grünbein (born 1962).

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Prefatory Note; Introduction: On Poetry, Life, Method, and Sundry Affairs; 1. Creative Fidelities; 2. From Encounter to Tryst: Celan and Shakespeare; 3. Metaphors of Subjectivity: Grünbein and the Philosophers; 4. What's in a Name? Brodsky and the English Muse; Closing Remarks; Appendix: Constellations; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-225) and index.

ISBN:

9780804786812

080478681X

OCLC:

818318997