| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 248 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur, 0169-0221 ; 157 |
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Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur ; 157. Bd.
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| Contents |
Paul Celan: Studies in His Early Poetry; Acknowledgments; Contents; Preface: Celan's Early Years; Introduction; I: The Beginnings, Part; II: The Beginnings, Part II; III: Poppies, Forgetfulness, Dreams, Rebels; IV: Things (Quasi- ) Medieval; V: War; VI: The Mother Figure; VII: On the Way to Todesfuge; VIII: Poetic Devices and Their Consequences; Appendix: The Lithographs in Der Sand aus den Urnen; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of German Celan Poems Cited |
| Summary |
Paul Celan: Studies in His Early Poetry scrutinizes the influences detectable in the poems written during 1938-48. Among German writers, Büchner, Goethe, Gottfried von Strassburg, Gryphius, Mörike, the poet of the Nibelungenlied, Novalis, Rilke, and Trakl all provided motifs that, often repeated, make for a dense network inviting attention to the self-referential and self-revealing patterns in Celan's early work. In addition, there are many poems that contain motifs gleaned from Greek mythology and/or biblical data. These references, on occasion quite clear, more often so obscure as to be haz |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index |
| Notes |
English and German |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Celan, Paul -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Celan, Paul fast |
| Subject |
German poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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POETRY -- Continental European.
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German poetry
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781435647145 |
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1435647149 |
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