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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2017-01-01
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-e46cc637fc4847fa9ccd0d6f8c5525ef2025-01-30T10:46:04ZengAssociation Française d'Etudes AméricainesTransatlantica1765-27662017-01-01110.4000/transatlantica.8096Beyond the American Difficult Poem: Paul Celan’s “Du liegst”Xavier KalckThis 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.https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/8096avant-gardemodernismPaul CelanpoeticsGadamerRosa Luxemburg |
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| title | Beyond the American Difficult Poem: Paul Celan’s “Du liegst” |
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| topic | avant-garde modernism Paul Celan poetics Gadamer Rosa Luxemburg |
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