Nelly Sachs : the poetics of silence and the limits of representation /

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Author / Creator:Martin, Elaine, 1982-
Imprint:Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, ©2011.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 199 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11121967
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ISBN:9783110256734
3110256738
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9781283400565
311025672X
9783110256727
9783110256727
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
In English.
Summary:This book examines the poetry of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Nelly Sachs. It shifts established patterns of reception by analysing the author's reception in East and West Germany after the war and the role she came to play in theWest as a representative 'Poet of Reconciliation'. The study situates Sachs' work within the framework of the debate surrounding the representation of the Holocaust, exploring the aesthetic means by which Sachs renders the aporetic tension at the heart of Adorno's writings on Holocaust art legible in her poetry. The primary question addressed is whether Sachs' poetry.
Other form:Print version: Martin, Elaine, 1982- Nelly Sachs. Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, ©2011
Standard no.:10.1515/9783110256734