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Henri Meschonnic was a linguist, poet, translator of the Bible and
one of the most original French thinkers of his generation. He
strove throughout his career to reform the understanding of
language and all that depends on it. His work has had a shaping
influence on a generation of scholars and here, for the first time,
a selection of these are made available in English for a new
generation of linguists and philosophers of language. This Reader,
featuring sixteen texts covering the core concepts and topics of
Meschonnic's theory, will enrich, enhance and challenge your
understanding of language. It explores his key ideas on poetics,
the poem, rhythm, discourse and his critique of the sign.
Meschonnic's vast oeuvre was continuously preoccupied with the
question of a poetics of society; he constantly connected the
theory of language to its practice in various fields and
interrogated what that means for society. In exploring this
fundamental question, this book is central to the study and
philosophy of language, with rich repercussions in fields such as
translation studies, poetics and literary studies, and in
redefining notions such as rhythm, modernity, the poem and the
subject.
Marking Paul Celan's 100th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his
death, this volume endeavours to answer the following question: why
does Celan still matter today - more than ever perhaps? And why
should he continue to matter tomorrow? In other words, the volume
explores and assesses the enduring significance of Celan's life and
oeuvre in and for the 21st century. Boasting cutting-edge research
by international scholars together with original contributions by
contemporary artists and writers, this book attests to, on the one
hand, the extent to which large swathes of contemporary philosophy,
poetics, literary scholarship, and aesthetics have been indebted to
Celan's legacy and are simply unthinkable without it, and, on the
other hand, to the malleability, adaptability, breadth and depth of
Celan's poetics, which, like the music of The Beatles, Led
Zeppelin, or Queen, is reborn and rediscovered with every new
generation.
New essays on poetical and theoretical responses to the Holocaust's
rupture of German and European civilization. Crisis presents
chances for change and creativity: Adorno's famous dictum that
writing poetry after Auschwitz would be barbaric has haunted
discourse on poetics, but has also given rise to poetic and
theoretical acts of resistance. The essays in this volume discuss
postwar poetics in terms of new poetological directions and
territory rather than merely destruction of traditions. Embedded in
the discourse triggered by Adorno, the volume's foci include the
work of Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn, and Ingeborg Bachmann. Other
German writers discussed are Ilse Aichinger, Rose Auslander,
Charlotte Beradt, Thomas Kling, Heiner Muller, and Nelly Sachs;
concrete poetry is also treated. The final section offers
comparative views of the poetics of European literary figures such
as Jean Paul Sartre, Andre Malraux, and Danilo Kis and a
consideration of the aesthetics of Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah.
Contributors: Chris Bezzel, Manuel Braganca, Gisela Dischner,
Rudiger Goerner, Stefan Hajduk, Gert Hofmann, Aniela Knoblich,
Rachel MagShamhrain, Marton Marko, Elaine Martin, Barry Murnane,
Marko Pajevic, Tatjana Petzer, Renata Plaice,Annette Runte,
Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, Michael Shields, Peter Tame. Gert
Hofmann is a Lecturer in German, Comparative Literature, Drama, and
Film and Rachel MagShamhrain is a Lecturer in German, Film, and
Comparative Literature, both at University College Cork; Marko
Pajevic is a Lecturer in German at Queen's University Belfast;
Michael Shields is a Lecturer in German at the National University
of Ireland, Galway.
Henri Meschonnic was a linguist, poet, translator of the Bible and
one of the most original French thinkers of his generation. He
strove throughout his career to reform the understanding of
language and all that depends on it. His work has had a shaping
influence on a generation of scholars and here, for the first time,
a selection of these are made available in English for a new
generation of linguists and philosophers of language. This Reader,
featuring fourteen texts covering the core concepts and topics of
Meschonnic's theory, will enrich, enhance and challenge your
understanding of language. It explores his key ideas on poetics,
the poem, rhythm, discourse and his critique of the sign.
Meschonnic's vast oeuvre was continuously preoccupied with the
question of a poetics of society; he constantly connected the
theory of language to its practice in various fields and
interrogated what that means for society. In exploring this
fundamental question, this book is central to the study and
philosophy of language, with rich repercussions in fields such as
translation studies, poetics and literary studies, and in
redefining notions such as rhythm, modernity, the poem and the
subject.
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