Sites of the Uncanny: Paul Celan, Specularity and the Visual Arts

Eric Kligerman

Published by De Gruyter 2007

Sites of the Uncanny

Paul Celan, Specularity and the Visual Arts

Eric Kligerman

Volume 3 in the series Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110913934

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About this book

Sites of the Uncanny: Paul Celan, Specularity and the Visual Arts is the first book-length study that examines Celan’s impact on visual culture. Exploring poetry’s relation to film, painting and architecture, this study tracks the transformation of Celan in postwar German culture and shows the extent to which his poetics accompany the country’s memory politics after the Holocaust. The book posits a new theoretical model of the Holocaustal uncanny – evolving out of a crossing between Celan, Freud, Heidegger and Levinas – that provides a map for entering other modes of Holocaust representations. After probing Celan’s critique of the uncanny in Heidegger, this study shifts to the translation of Celan’s uncanny poetics in Resnais’ film Night and Fog, Kiefer’s art and Libeskind’s architecture.

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Eric Kligerman, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.

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i-iv Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Facing the Holocaust Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Specular Disruptions–The Sublime, the Uncanny, and Empathic Identification Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Chapter 2. Catastrophe and the Uncanny in Heidegger’s Fetishized Narrative Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Chapter 3. Broken Meridians–From Heidegger’s Pathway to Celan’s Judengasse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Chapter 4. Celan’s Cinematic: Anxiety of the Gaze in Nuit et Brouillard and “Engführung” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Chapter 5. Re-Figuring Celan in the Paintings of Anselm Kiefer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Chapter 6. Ghostly Demarcations–Translating Paul Celan’s Poetics in Daniel Libeskind’s Architectural Space Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Conclusion. Mnemosyne and the Ruins of History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 330
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 19
Keywords: German Literature; Comparative Literature; Jewish Studies

eBook

Published: February 13, 2012
ISBN: 9783110913934

Hardcover

Published: August 20, 2007
ISBN: 9783110191356