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For the Dying Calves: Beyond Literature: Oxford Lectures

English · Hardback

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Poetically written and originally given as lectures, this is a moving essay collection from Durs Grünbein.

In his four Lord Weidenfeld Lectures held in Oxford in 2019, German poet Durs Grünbein dealt with a topic that has occupied his mind ever since he began to perceive his own position within the past of his nation, his linguistic community, and his family: How is it possible that history can determine the individual poetic imagination and segregate it into private niches? Shouldn't poetry look at the world with its own sovereign eyes instead?

In the form of a collage or "photosynthesis," in image and text, Grünbein lets the fundamental opposition between poetic license and almost overwhelming bondage to history appear in an exemplary way. From the seeming trifle of a stamp with the portrait of Adolf Hitler, he moves through the phenomenon of the "Führer's streets" and into the inferno of aerial warfare. In the end, Grünbein argues that we are faced with the powerlessness of writing and the realization, valid to this day, that comes from confronting history. As he muses, "There is something beyond literature that questions all writing."

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Durs Grünbein was born in Dresden in 1962, and he now lives in Berlin and Rome. He is professor of poetics and aesthetics at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He has written more than twenty-five books, including, most recently, Porcelain, also published by Seagull Books. Karen Leeder is a writer, translator, and academic. She teaches German at New College, Oxford.

Product details

Authors Durs Grunbein, Durs Grünbein
Assisted by Karen Leeder (Translation)
Publisher Seagull Books
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.04.2022
 
EAN 9780857429544
ISBN 978-0-85742-954-4
No. of pages 164
Dimensions 153 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
Weight 398 g
Series The German List
The German List - (Seagull Titles CHUP)
Subject Humanities, art, music > History

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