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Colour is a problem for poetry, where - unlike in painting,
sculpture or film - it is marked by its absence. This absence
raises questions that have often been overlooked in the study of
colour: how do writers navigate the invisibility of colour in text?
What aesthetic commitments do certain attitudes to colour expose?
And how, in the face of its absence, do we read colour? This
ambitious and exciting study addresses these questions, analysing
the use of colour language in the work of Stefan George, Rainer
Maria Rilke, Wassily Kandinsky and Else Lasker-Schuler to tease out
how these poets understood poetic production, and how they
negotiated the relations between poem, reader and world. Covering
the poetry, prose, translation, literary and art criticism and
theory of these and other writers central to European literature at
the turn of the twentieth century, Reading Colour sheds new light
on poetic practice of the period, but also uses colour to open up
an understanding of how poetic language works, and to ask how we
read poetry. This book was the winner of the 2018 Early Career
Researcher Prize in German Studies, a collaboration between the
Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham and
Peter Lang.
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