Western art and Jewish presence in the work of Paul Celan : roots and ramifications of the "Meridian" speech /
"Western Art and Jewish Presence in the Work of Paul Celan examines "The Meridian" as a base from which to explore the poet's work as a whole, following the speech's connections to its sources and to poems written before and after. The discussion focuses on the complex dialo...
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Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London :
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[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- I
- Idolatry, Determinism, and Freedom
- 1
- Section (1)
- Ladies, Gentlemen, and Puppets
- 1
- Section (2)
- The Creature with Nothing On
- 7
- Section (3)
- Robots in Paradise
- 12
- Section (4)
- Art as a Problem
- 19
- Section (5)
- The Presence of Lucile
- 21
- Section (6)
- The Fatalism of History
- 29
- Section (7)
- An Act of Freedom
- 32
- Section (8)
- The Majesty of the Absurd
- 43
- Section (9)
- The (De-)Definition of Poetry
- 59
- Section (10)
- Setting the Acute Accent
- 60
- Notes
- 62
- II
- Lenz, the Exodic Moment, and the Pathway of Art
- 67
- Section (11)
- Modulating to Lenz
- 67
- Sections (12) and (13)
- Lenz on Art
- 69
- Sections (14)-(15)
- Lenz on Art, Continued 72 Section (16): The Medusa's Head: Art as a Means of Control
- 76
- Section (17)
- The Uncanny Realm
- 79
- Section (18)
- Uncanniness, Ancient and Acute
- 94
- Section (19)
- The "Calling-Into-Question" of Art
- 96
- Section (20)
- Lenz's "Self-forgetfulness"
- 100
- Section (21)
- Poetry and the Pathway of Art
- 103
- Section (22)
- The (Non-)Search for a Way Out
- 104
- Section (23)
- The "Place" of Poetry
- 111
- Section (24)
- The Death of Lenz and the Speech of the Stone
- 113
- Section (25)
- Lenz's "Step"
- 120
- Section (26)
- The Abyss
- 138
- Section (27)
- The Obscurity of Poetry
- 138
- Section (28)
- The Two Kinds of Strangeness: "Speech-Grille"
- 151
- Notes
- 154
- III
- The Poem's Quest for the (Wholly) Other
- 159
- Section (29)
- The Breath-Turn
- 159
- Section (30)
- The "Date" of the Poem
- 174
- Section (31)
- The Poem as Speech
- 176
- Section (32)
- The Poem at the Edge of Itself
- 186
- Section (33)
- Actualized Language
- 190
- Section (34)
- Solitude and Encounter
- 202
- Section (35)
- The Natural Prayer of the Soul
- 204
- Section (36)
- The Poem as Dialogue
- 207
- Notes
- 212
- IV
- Toward Circumference
- 217
- Section (37)
- Images and Tropes
- 217
- Section (38)
- The Absolute Poem
- 218
- Section (39)
- Perception, Once and Always
- 222
- Section (40)
- Topos Research
- 225
- Section (41)
- Turning Back
- 228
- Section (42)
- Persistence of Art
- 230
- Section (43)
- Recapitulation
- 234
- Section (44)
- Infinite and Useless
- 236
- Section (45)
- From Another (Jewish) Direction
- 237
- Section (46)
- Dialogue and Self-Encounter
- 244
- Section (47)
- The close of Leonce and Lena
- 247
- Section (48)
- The Last Two Words
- 247
- Section (49)
- The Finger on the Map
- 250
- Sections (50) and (51)
- A "Happy" Ending
- 255
- Notes
- 259
- V
- Post Meridian
- 261
- Sections (52) and (53)
- Closing Formalities
- 261
- Epilogue (1): The Road from Darmstadt
- 263
- Epilogue (2): After the Seventh Day
- 270
- Notes
- 280.