| Description |
x, 221 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Timothy Bahti and Marilyn Sibley Fries -- 2. The Search for Identity: Nelly Sachs's Jewishness / Ruth Dinesen -- 3. "My Metaphors Are My Wounds": Nelly Sachs and the Limits of Poetic Metaphor / Ehrhard Bahr -- 4. Nelly Sachs: The Poem and Transformation / Johannes Anderegg -- 5. The Poetics of Inadequacy: Nelly Sachs and the Resurrection of the Dead / William West -- 6. Nelly Sachs and the Dance of Language / Elisabeth Strenger -- 7. Approaches to a Theory of Language: Walter Benjamin's Early Essays and Nelly Sachs's Dramatic Scenes / Dorothee Ostmeier -- 8. Benjamin's Metaphors of Origin: Names, Ideas, Stars / Stephane Moses -- 9. Walter Benjamin's Variations of Imagelessness / Winfried Menninghaus -- 10. In Citing Violence: Gestus in Benjamin, Brecht, and Kafka / Patricia Anne Simpson -- 11. Works Cited |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index |
| Subject |
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
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Sachs, Nelly.
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Jewish authors -- Germany -- Biography.
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German literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
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Authors, German -- 20th century -- Biography.
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German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Bahti, Timothy, 1952-
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Fries, Marilyn Sibley, 1945-1995.
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| LC no. |
95025355 |
| ISBN |
047210621X (acid-free paper) |
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