Sites of the Uncanny: Paul Celan, Specularity and the Visual ArtsWalter de Gruyter, 2012 M02 13 - 341 pages 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. |
Contents
To see a hundred corpses lie side by side or five hundred or | 37 |
Repetition | 49 |
Catastrophe and the Uncanny in Heideggers | 74 |
Broken MeridiansFrom Heideggers Pathway | 104 |
Doubles Repetitions Ghosts Blindings and | 113 |
The Ethics of | 122 |
Mourning and Translation | 132 |
Celans CinematicAnxiety of the Gaze in Nuit | 138 |
The Face and | 164 |
Refiguring Celan in the Paintings of Anselm Kiefer | 187 |
The Return of Paul Celan | 195 |
Ghostly DemarcationsTranslating Paul Celans | 233 |
Mnemosyne and the Ruins of History | 290 |
Bibliography | 313 |
327 | |
Inside | 158 |
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Sites of the Uncanny: Paul Celan, Specularity and the Visual Arts Eric Kligerman Limited preview - 2007 |