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Durs Gr nbein is the most significant poet writing in Germany today. No other modern German poet has written from such an emphatically European perspective, and this volume seeks to introduce him to the English-speaking world. Written by a line-up of international scholars, the volume presents highl...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Companions to contemporary german culture;
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| Summary: |
Durs Gr nbein is the most significant poet writing in Germany today. No other modern German poet has written from such an emphatically European perspective, and this volume seeks to introduce him to the English-speaking world. Written by a line-up of international scholars, the volume presents highly readable and wide-ranging essays on Gr nbein s substantial uvre, complemented by specially commissioned material and an interview with the poet. It covers the German and European traditions, memory and cityscapes, the natural sciences, death, love, the visual arts, and presence. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(xiv,259pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783110227956 |
| Index Number: | PT2667 |
| CLC: | I516.25 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Translations -- Preface / Durs Gr nbein and the Wende / Durs Gr nbein and the European Tradition / Gr nbein and Anglo-American Poetry. Dickinson, Pound, Larkin / Durs Gr nbein and the Poetry of Science / Philosophy and Poetry in Durs Gr nbein s Prose / Concept(ion) versus Ekphrasis. Durs Gr nbein s Approach to the Pictorial Arts / Wunderblock. Durs Gr nbein and the Urban Arts of Memory / Speak, memory! Durs Gr nbein s Strophen f r bermorgen / A Poetics of Presence. Travel Cycles in Aroma and Lob des Taifuns / Europe after the Last Rains. On Ashes for Breakfast / Cadences in the Gaps of Time . The Poet, the Past and Porzellan / Durs Gr nbein. A Bibliography / Contributors -- Index. |