LEADER 03809nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910789462703321 005 20230725053251.0 010 $a1-283-40056-1 010 $a9786613400567 010 $a3-11-025673-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110256734 035 $a(CKB)3520000000000132 035 $a(EBL)787199 035 $a(OCoLC)757261236 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000539445 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12252955 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000539445 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10568835 035 $a(PQKB)11459089 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC787199 035 $a(DE-B1597)123811 035 $a(OCoLC)769190146 035 $a(OCoLC)979753555 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110256734 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL787199 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10512190 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL340056 035 $a(EXLCZ)993520000000000132 100 $a20110429d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNelly Sachs$b[electronic resource] $ethe poetics of silence and the limits of representation /$fby Elaine Martin 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cDe Gruyter$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a3-11-025672-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFront matter --$tAcknowledgements --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tI. Contexts --$t1. Nelly Sachs: A Tumultuous Reception History --$t2. The Problematics of Holocaust Representation --$tII. Practices --$t3. Nelly Sachs' Poetics of Silence: Poetry at the Limits of Representation --$tConclusion --$tBibliography 330 $aNelly Sachs. The Poetics of Silence and the Limits of Representation examines the poetry of the Nobel Prize-winning German Jewish poet Nelly Sachs. It firstly shifts established patterns of reception by analysing the author's reception in East and West Germany after the war and the role she came to play in the Federal Republic as a representative 'Poet of Reconciliation'. The study then situates Sachs' work within the framework of the debate surrounding the representation of the Holocaust by means of a thorough exposition of the aporia at the heart of Theodor Adorno's writings on post-Holocaust art. It demonstrates by close reading how Sachs' work is itself marked by this aporetic struggle and exposes in particular the aesthetic means by which Sachs renders this aporetic tension legible in her poetry through her use of, for example, prosopopoeia, her recasting of traditional metaphors and her reversal of biblical archetypes. The primary question addressed is whether Sachs' poetry, in spite of the fact that it thematises the impossibility of adequate representation, has representational value, or whether her work is bereft of concrete, representational meaning as a result of the often fragmented nature of her writing. In particular, the author confronts those critics who see in Sachs' work elements of consolation, reconciliation, or redemption in a transcendental realm, in favour of a reading that regards her work as permeated with the concrete events of the Holocaust and irreconcilably opposed to any notion of a religious sense-making and redemptive paradigm. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / German$2bisacsh 610 $aGerman-Jewish Studies. 610 $aHolocaust Literature. 610 $aNelly Sachs. 610 $aPost-War Literature. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. 676 $a831/.914 700 $aMartin$b Elaine$f1982-$01556618 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789462703321 996 $aNelly Sachs$93819434 997 $aUNINA