Sites of the Uncanny - Paul Celan, Specularity and the Visual Arts

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.

About the author

Eric Kligerman, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Kligerman
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9783110191356
• ISBN: 978-3-11-019135-6
• No. of pages: 330
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 27 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 620 g
• Illustrations: 19 b/w ill.
• Series: Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies; Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies; ISSN
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Celan, Paul, Deutsch, Filmgeschichte, Filmtheorie und Filmkritik, Kulturwissenschaften, Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Cultural Studies, Linguistik, Sprache, allgemein und Nachschlagewerke, Kunst: Themen und Techniken, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, Wissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaften, Unterricht / Deutsch, Holocaust (Motiv, literarisch), German Literature; Comparative Literature; Jewish Studies