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Michael Eskin - Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grünbein, Brodsky - 9780804758314 - V9780804758314
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Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grünbein, Brodsky

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Description for Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grünbein, Brodsky Hardback. Presents the interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of three poets: the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920-1970); the Leningrad native, US poet laureate, and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996); and, Germany's premier contemporary poet, Durs Grunbein (born 1962). Series: Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 481.

Poetic Affairs deals with the complex and fascinating interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of three outstanding poets: the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920–1970); the Leningrad native, U.S. poet laureate, and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996); and Germany's premier contemporary poet, Durs Grünbein (born 1962). Focusing on their poetic dialogues with such interlocutors as Shakespeare, Seneca, and Byron, respectively—veritable love affairs unfolding in and through poetry—Eskin offers unprecedented readings of Celan's, Brodsky's, and Grünbein's lives and works and discloses the ways in which poetry articulates and remains faithful to ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
Series
Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804758314
SKU
V9780804758314
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Michael Eskin
Michael Eskin teaches German and comparative literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Ethics and Dialogue in the Works of Levinas, Bakhtin, Mandel'shtam, and Celan (2000) as well as a book in German on Nabokov's version of Pushkin's Eugen Onegin (1994).

Reviews for Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grünbein, Brodsky
"At the present juncture of new possibilities for critical strategies, Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grnbein, Brodsky sheds, at times, its paradigmatic weight and achieves, beyond boundaries set by codified procedures of discourse, a fidelity to its exploration borne by succinctness of style and the confident subjectivity of informed insight . . . Eskin's book is a valuable illumination of Celan, Grnbein, ... Read more

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