Beyond the American Difficult Poem: Paul Celan’s “Du liegst”
This paper presents a close reading of a late poem by German poet Paul Celan, with a view to call into question several critical assumptions relating to modernist-derived “difficulty.” By looking in detail at what makes a poem “difficult” for the reader,a fact highlighted by a comparative approach,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/8096 |
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| Summary: | This paper presents a close reading of a late poem by German poet Paul Celan, with a view to call into question several critical assumptions relating to modernist-derived “difficulty.” By looking in detail at what makes a poem “difficult” for the reader,a fact highlighted by a comparative approach, it becomes possible to move beyond such qualities as innovative, radical or avant-garde, and to consider what truly makes up our literary knowledge. |
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| ISSN: | 1765-2766 |