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Remnants Of Song - Trauma And The Experience Of Modernity In Charles Baudelaire And Paul Celan

by Ulrich Baer
₱300.15
Remnants Of Song - Trauma And The Experience Of Modernity In Charles Baudelaire And Paul Celan - Thryft
Remnants Of Song - Trauma And The Experience Of Modernity In Charles Baudelaire And Paul Celan - Thryft

Trauma, modernity, and poetry intersect in Remnants of Song.

Remnants of Song could be a good read for those interested in literary analysis, particularly the works of Baudelaire and Celan. Baer's analysis of the trauma and tragedy in their poems provides a fresh perspective on their impact and the era they lived in. It could be especially insightful for those interested in the Holocaust's influence on modern literature.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Remnants Of Song - Trauma And The Experience Of Modernity In Charles Baudelaire And Paul Celan

by Ulrich Baer
₱300.15
ISBN: 9780804739276
Authors: Ulrich Baer
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date of Publication: 2000-09-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Art, Literature
Related Topics: Art History, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.82
(rated by 11 readers)

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In a bold reassessment, this book analyzes the works of Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan, two poets who frame our sense of modern poetry and define the beginning and end of modernity itself.The two poets share a feature that seems to block their placement in such an easy chronological or historical each accounts for an experience that will not fully enter memory, but dissipates in the mind in the form of trauma, fragments, and shock. While Baudelaire, as Paul Valéry was the first to show, explores the trauma of the minute personal shocks of everyday existence in modern life, Celan engages with the catastrophic magnitude of the Holocaust and how it has altered our understanding of history. Can we relate the shocks registered in Baudelaire€™s poems to the historical horror addressed in Celan€™s work without denying either the singularity of suffering and loss or the uniqueness of the historical event of the Shoah?Drawing on trauma studies and Holo
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Trauma, modernity, and poetry intersect in Remnants of Song.

Remnants of Song could be a good read for those interested in literary analysis, particularly the works of Baudelaire and Celan. Baer's analysis of the trauma and tragedy in their poems provides a fresh perspective on their impact and the era they lived in. It could be especially insightful for those interested in the Holocaust's influence on modern literature.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.