Thresholds, encounters : Paul Celan and the claim of philology / edited by Kristina Mendicino and Dominik Zechner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mendicino, Kristina, editor.

Zechner, Dominik, editor.

Series:

SUNY series, literature ... in theory.

SUNY Series, Literature ... in Theory Series.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

German poetry.

Philology.

Celan, Paul--Criticism and interpretation.

Celan, Paul.

Celan, Paul--Themes, motives.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2023]

Summary:

Explores the various ways in which poetic and philosophical writing meet in texts by, and on, Paul Celan.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Dis-positions: Introduction

Notes

Part 1: Ex-posing the Poem

History

Chapter 1: "In the Swell of Wandering Words": Celan's "Sprich auch du"

Chapter 2: A Different Withness: Bearing with the Past in Paul Celan's "Engführung"

Blind Palpations

Breathing with "Engführung"

Reaching through Time

Ecology

Chapter 3: Flower Talk

Chapter 4: Poetic Involution: Adorno, Celan, Nature

Adorno, Speaking of Stones and Stars

Celan, Involving Poetry

Aurality

Chapter 5: Allophony: Celan's Niemandsrosen-Lieder

Chapter 6: "A Chest Full of Cello Boughs": The Sonorous Force of Writing in Deconstructive Readings of Celan

Part 2: Language Dislodged

Encounters

Chapter 7: A limine

Chapter 8: With-Paul Celan

Chapter 9: Occupiability

The Poem as an Interlinear Version: "The poem is, in its own way, occupiable."

The Poem as Conversation (Gespräch) and a Search for Reality: "unoccupiable // I and you, too . . ."

Häm: Inhibition (Hemmung) and Placelessness (Stellenlosigkeit)

Three Stories of Occupiability from 1967/1968

"Ein Leseast": Unoccupiable Capital

"Offene Glottis": "unoccupiable / I and you, too . . ."

The Poem Has Shape: Lucile, the Occupiable

Chapter 10: For Shame of Language

Limits of Experience

proto and para

Vor Scham (of Language)

vor

fors

Translations

Chapter 11: Poetic Approach: Celan's Radio Essay "Die Dichtung Ossip Mandelstamms"

In Search of a Poetics

One Literary Emigrant Introduces Another

A Defamiliarizing Introduction

Seeking Refuge in Philosophy

Being or Poem

Geschiedensein of Languages

Chapter 12: The Mimetic Desire of Translation: Reading Celan and Derrida with Girard

Mimetic Desire, the Scapegoat Mechanism, and Celan's Bremen Address

"Schibboleth" and Monolingualism of the Other

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781438494395

1438494394

OCLC:

1394121293