Durs Grünbein : a companion / edited by Michael Eskin, Karen Leeder, Christopher Young.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Young, Christopher, 1967-

Eskin, Michael.

Leeder, Karen J.

Series:

Companions to contemporary German culture ; v. 2.

Companions to contemporary German culture, 2193-9659 ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grünbein, Durs--Criticism and interpretation.

Grünbein, Durs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Durs Grünbein is the most significant poet and essayist in German today. No other modern German poet has written from such an emphatically European and global perspective, and this volume seeks to present the poet and his work to the English-speaking world in all their significance and breadth. Written by a line-up of international scholars and critics, the volume offers highly readable and wide-ranging essays on Grünbein's substantial œuvre, complemented by specially commissioned material and an interview with the poet. It covers the German and European traditions, and engages with Grünbein's works in the context of a number of relevant topics, such as 'memory', 'urban life', 'mortality', 'love', and 'presence'; it also probes Grünbein's sustained dialogue with the natural sciences and the visual arts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

A Note on Translations

Preface / Eskin, Michael

Durs Grünbein and the Wende / Young, Christopher

Durs Grünbein and the European Tradition / Eskin, Michael

Grünbein and Anglo-American Poetry. Dickinson, Pound, Larkin / Cooper, Ian

Durs Grünbein and the Poetry of Science / Leeder, Karen

Philosophy and Poetry in Durs Grünbein's Prose / Regier, Alexander

Concept(ion) versus Ekphrasis. Durs Grünbein's Approach to the Pictorial Arts / Reumkens, Noël

Wunderblock. Durs Grünbein and the Urban Arts of Memory / Webber, Andrew

'Speak, memory!' Durs Grünbein's Strophen für übermorgen / Klein, Sonja

A Poetics of Presence. Travel Cycles in Aroma and Lob des Taifuns / Owen, Ruth J.

Europe after the Last Rains. On Ashes for Breakfast / Vendler, Helen

'Cadences in the Gaps of Time'. The Poet, the Past and Porzellan / Grünbein, Durs / Eskin, Michael / Young, Christopher

Durs Grünbein. A Bibliography / Werner, Lukas

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-11-022795-9

OCLC:

831121186