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Poetry as Individuality

The Discourse of Observation in Paul Celan

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Poetry as Individuality

The Discourse of Observation in Paul Celan

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The most significant European poet of the second half of the twentieth century, Paul Celan, viewed poetry as "the language of an individual that has become form," an individual that is constructed through the act of observation in the poem. Hillard argues that individuality is the crux of poetry for Celan because the Holocaust effectively eviscerated the individual. He investigates the core figures of individuality in Celan's poetry and prose: semblance, madness, and the wound. Celan's enigmatic poetry of a depopulated textual universe has perplexed critics. This book argues that the poetry's figures have a common source—the discourse of observation from the fields of appearance, perception, and the mind.

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Published Jan 01 2010
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 181
ISBN 9781611483390
Imprint Bucknell University Press
Dimensions 10 x 7 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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