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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788426703321

Autore

Kligerman Eric

Titolo

Sites of the uncanny [[electronic resource] ] : Paul Celan, specularity and the visual arts / / Eric Kligerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2007

ISBN

3-11-091393-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Collana

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; ; v. 3

Classificazione

GN 3728

Disciplina

831.914

Soggetti

Popular culture - Germany

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the arts

Collective memory - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-325) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Facing the Holocaust -- Chapter 1. Specular Disruptions-The Sublime, the Uncanny, and Empathic Identification -- Chapter 2. Catastrophe and the Uncanny in Heidegger's Fetishized Narrative -- Chapter 3. Broken Meridians-From Heidegger's Pathway to Celan's Judengasse -- Chapter 4. Celan's Cinematic: Anxiety of the Gaze in Nuit et Brouillard and "Engführung" -- Chapter 5. Re-Figuring Celan in the Paintings of Anselm Kiefer -- Chapter 6. Ghostly Demarcations-Translating Paul Celan's Poetics in Daniel Libeskind's Architectural Space -- Conclusion. Mnemosyne and the Ruins of History -- Bibliography -- Index of Names

Sommario/riassunto

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.