Sites of the Uncanny: Paul Celan, Specularity and the Visual ArtsWalter de Gruyter, 2007 - 330 pages The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersections that currently motivate interdisciplinary inquiry in German cultural studies. Topics span German-speaking lands and cultures from the 18th to the 21st century, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to create knowledge and add to critical understanding in German studies. The series editor is a renowned professor of German studies in the United States who penned one of the foundational texts for understanding what interdisciplinary German cultural studies can be. All works are peer-reviewed and in English. Three new titles will be published annually. About the series editor: Irene Kacandes is the Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. She received three degrees from Harvard University and also studied at the Free University of Berlin and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She publishes on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics including secondary orality, rhetoric, aesthetics, trauma, witnessing, family and generational memory, experimental life writing, Holocaust testimony, and narrative theory. She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and currently serves as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and Vice President of the German Studies Association. |
Contents
Specular DisruptionsThe Sublime the Uncanny | 27 |
Catastrophe and the Uncanny in Heideggers | 74 |
The Uncanny History and Loss of the Ethical | 88 |
Celans Judengasse | 104 |
Celans CinematicAnxiety of the Gaze in Nuit | 138 |
Resnais and the Visual Arts | 146 |
Van Goghs Cornfield with Crows Crossing Film and Poetry | 154 |
The Face and the Trace | 164 |
Sulamith Anselm Kiefer 1990 | 225 |
Ghostly DemarcationsTranslating Paul Celans | 233 |
XAxes The Jewish Museum Berlin | 252 |
Celan Courtyard The Jewish Museum Berlin | 258 |
Void Bridge and Window The Jewish Museum Berlin | 266 |
Orgelmann Felix Nussbaum 194344 | 273 |
Selbstbildnis mit Judenpass Felix Nussbaum 1943 | 279 |
Die Verdammten Felix Nussbaum 194344 | 286 |
Celans Engführung | 172 |
Refiguring Celan in the Paintings of Anselm Kiefer | 187 |
Nothung Anselm Kiefer 1973 | 201 |
Der gestirnte Himmel Anselm Kiefer 1980 | 208 |
Dein aschenes Haar Sulamith Anselm Kiefer 1981 | 219 |
Mnemosyne and the Ruins of History | 290 |
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe | 306 |
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Sites of the Uncanny: Paul Celan, Specularity and the Visual Arts Eric Kligerman Limited preview - 2012 |