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Nelly Sachs - The Poetics of Silence and the Limits of Representation (Hardcover)
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Nelly Sachs - The Poetics of Silence and the Limits of Representation (Hardcover)
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Nelly Sachs. The Poetics of Silence and the Limits of
Representation examines the poetry of the Nobel Prize-winning
German Jewish poet Nelly Sachs. It firstly shifts established
patterns of reception by analysing the author's reception in East
and West Germany after the war and the role she came to play in the
Federal Republic as a representative 'Poet of Reconciliation'. The
study then situates Sachs' work within the framework of the debate
surrounding the representation of the Holocaust by means of a
thorough exposition of the aporia at the heart of Theodor Adorno's
writings on post-Holocaust art. It demonstrates by close reading
how Sachs' work is itself marked by this aporetic struggle and
exposes in particular the aesthetic means by which Sachs renders
this aporetic tension legible in her poetry through her use of, for
example, prosopopoeia, her recasting of traditional metaphors and
her reversal of biblical archetypes. The primary question addressed
is whether Sachs' poetry, in spite of the fact that it thematises
the impossibility of adequate representation, has representational
value, or whether her work is bereft of concrete, representational
meaning as a result of the often fragmented nature of her writing.
In particular, the author confronts those critics who see in Sachs'
work elements of consolation, reconciliation, or redemption in a
transcendental realm, in favour of a reading that regards her work
as permeated with the concrete events of the Holocaust and
irreconcilably opposed to any notion of a religious sense-making
and redemptive paradigm.
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