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

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Walter 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.

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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
Bibliography
313
Index of Names
327
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Eric Kligerman, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.

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