Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology

by Kristina Mendicino (Editor), Dominik Zechner (Editor)

Overview

Explores the various ways in which poetic and philosophical writing meet in texts by, and on, Paul Celan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438494418
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	09/01/2023
Series:	SUNY series, Literature . . . in Theory
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Kristina Mendicino is Associate Professor of German Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Announcements: On Novelty and Passive Voices (On the Subject of Phenomenology and Other Figures of Speech), both published by SUNY Press. Dominik Zechner is Assistant Professor of German at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Dis-positions: Introduction
Kristina Mendicino and Dominik Zechner

Part 1: Ex-posing the Poem

History

1. “In the Swell of Wandering Words”: Celan’s “Sprich auch du”
Michael G. Levine

2. A Different Witness: Bearing with the Past in Paul Celan’s “Engführung”
Simone Stirner

Ecology

3. Flower Talk
Jan Mieszkowski

4. Poetic Involution: Adorno, Celan, Nature
Natalie Lozinski-Veach

Aurality

5. Allophony: Celan’s Niemandsrosen-Lieder
Michael Auer

6. “A Chest Full of Cello Boughs”: The Sonorous Force of Writing in Deconstructive Readings of Celan
Naomi Waltham-Smith

Part 2: Language Dislodged

Encounters

7. A limine
Kristina Mendicino

8. With—Paul Celan
Pasqual Solass

Positions

9. Occupiability
Sarah Stoll, trans. Aida Feng

10. For Shame of Language
Dominik Zechner

Translations

11. Poetic Approach: Celan’s Radio Essay “Die Dichtung Ossip Mandelstamms”
Irina Kogan

12. The Mimetic Desire of Translation: Reading Celan and Derrida with Girard
Christine Frank

List of Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

"…this book stakes its 'claim of philology' by estranging preexisting critical positions on Celan and fathoming his multivocal idioms as if for the first time." — Critical Inquiry

"Beautiful and very open in its structure, Thresholds, Encounters is an invitation to dialogue." — Ilit Ferber, author of Language Pangs: On Pain and the Origin of Language

"The volume demonstrates an exemplary fidelity to a practice of philology that is attentive to language's capacity for ungrounding its propositions. It would not be an exaggeration to describe these performances of reading as tours de force." — Jason Groves, author of The Geological Unconscious: German Literature and the Mineral Imaginary

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