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Author Martin, Elaine, 1982-

Title Nelly Sachs : the poetics of silence and the limits of representation / by Elaine Martin.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 199 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction; I Contexts; II Practices; Conclusion; Bibliography.
Summary This book examines the poetry of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Nelly Sachs. It 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 theWest as a representative 'Poet of Reconciliation'. The study situates Sachs' work within the framework of the debate surrounding the representation of the Holocaust, exploring the aesthetic means by which Sachs renders the aporetic tension at the heart of Adorno's writings on Holocaust art legible in her poetry. The primary question addressed is whether Sachs' poetry.
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Subject Sachs, Nelly -- Criticism and interpretation.
Sachs, Nelly.
Criticism and interpretation.
Sachs, Nelly -- Criticism and interpretation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Martin, Elaine, 1982- Nelly Sachs. Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, ©2011 (DLC) 2011016184
ISBN 9783110256734 (electronic book)
3110256738 (electronic book)
1283400561
9781283400565
311025672X (acid-free paper)
9783110256727 (acid-free paper)
9783110256727 (acid-free paper)