In a bold reassessment, this book analyzes the works of Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan, two poets who frame our sense of modern poetry and define the beginning and end of modernity itself. The two poets share a feature that seems to block their placement in such an easy chronological or historical scheme: each accounts for an experience that will not fully enter memory, but dissipates in the mind in the form of trauma, fragments, and shock. While Baudelaire, as Paul Valery was the first to show, explores the trauma of the minute personal shocks of everyday existence in modern life, Celan...
In a bold reassessment, this book analyzes the works of Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan, two poets who frame our sense of modern poetry and define t...
New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event unimaginable before, and even after, it happened. The work of journalists appeared immediately, in news reports, commentaries, and personal essays. But no single collection has yet recorded how New York writers of fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose have responded to 9/11.
Now, in 110 Stories, Ulrich Baer has gathered a multi-hued range of voices that convey, with vivid...
New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and thi...
New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event unimaginable before, and even after, it happened. The work of journalists appeared immediately, in news reports, commentaries, and personal essays. But no single collection has yet recorded how New York writers of fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose have responded to 9/11.
Now, in 110 Stories, Ulrich Baer has gathered a multi-hued range of voices that convey, with vivid...
New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and thi...
Shoshana Felman ranks as one of the most influential literary critics of the past five decades. Her work has inspired and shaped such divergent fields as psychoanalytic criticism, deconstruction, speech-act theory and performance studies, feminist and gender studies, trauma studies, and critical legal studies. Shoshana Felman has not only influenced these fields: her work has opened channels of communication between them. In all of her work Felman charts a way for literary critics to address the ways in which texts have real effects in the world and how our quest for meaning is transformed in...
Shoshana Felman ranks as one of the most influential literary critics of the past five decades. Her work has inspired and shaped such divergent fields...
In diesem Buch wird der Holocaust erstmals als eine Krise der Zeugenschaft verstanden, die bis in die Gegenwart individuelle und kollektive Verhaltensweisen bestimmt. Niemand zeugt fr den Zeugen greift also nicht nur in die aktuelle Debatte um die Erinnerungskultur ein, sondern bietet auch den Lesern einen theoretisch fundierten und wirklichkeitsnahen Ansatz, sich damit auseinanderzusetzen, was sie persnlich - und was die Deutschen als Nation - erinnern sollen und knnen.
In diesem Buch wird der Holocaust erstmals als eine Krise der Zeugenschaft verstanden, die bis in die Gegenwart individuelle und kollektive Verhaltens...
Seine schnsten, bewegendsten und aufregendsten Gedanken ber die groen Offenbarungen des Lebens hat Rainer Maria Rilke auf eindrckliche Weise in seinen Briefen vermittelt. So richten sich seine daraus ausgewhlten Betrachtungen zu konkreten Fragen des menschlichen Daseins in ganz direkter Ansprache an den Leser.Die fnf handlichen Lesebcher lesen sich wie echte Lebensratgeber, sie zeigen uns, wie wir unser Leben ndern knnen, wenn wir es wollen.
Seine schnsten, bewegendsten und aufregendsten Gedanken ber die groen Offenbarungen des Lebens hat Rainer Maria Rilke auf eindrckliche Weise in seinen...
The enduring power of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry rests with his claim that all we need for a better life on earth is already given to us, in the here and now. In twenty-six engaging and accessible essays, Ulrich Baer's The Rilke Alphabet examines this promise by one of the greatest poets in any tradition that even the smallest overlooked word may unlock life's mysteries to us. Fueled by an unebbing passion and indeed love for Rilke's poetry, Baer examines twenty-six words that are not only unexpected but also problematic, controversial, and even scandalous in Rilke's work. In twenty-six...
The enduring power of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry rests with his claim that all we need for a better life on earth is already given to us, in the here...