E-Book, Englisch, Band 14, 160 Seiten, EPUB
Reihe: Martin Classical Lectures
(Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan)
E-Book, Englisch, Band 14, 160 Seiten, EPUB
Reihe: Martin Classical Lectures
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2315-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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In Carson's view Simonides and Celan share a similar mentality or disposition toward the world, language and the work of the poet. Economy of the Unlost begins by showing how each of the two poets stands in a state of alienation between two worlds. In Simonides' case, the gift economy of fifth-century b.c. Greece was giving way to one based on money and commodities, while Celan's life spanned pre- and post-Holocaust worlds, and he himself, writing in German, became estranged from his native language. Carson goes on to consider various aspects of the two poets' techniques for coming to grips with the invisible through the visible world. A focus on the genre of the epitaph grants insights into the kinds of exchange the poets envision between the living and the dead. Assessing the impact on Simonidean composition of the material fact of inscription on stone, Carson suggests that a need for brevity influenced the exactitude and clarity of Simonides' style, and proposes a comparison with Celan's interest in the "negative design" of printmaking: both poets, though in different ways, employ a kind of negative image making, cutting away all that is superfluous. This book's juxtaposition of the two poets illuminates their differences--Simonides' fundamental faith in the power of the word, Celan's ultimate despair--as well as their similarities; it provides fertile ground for the virtuosic interplay of Carson's scholarship and her poetic sensibility.
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Note on Method vii
PROLOGUE False Sail 3
CHAPTER I Vienation 10
CHAPTER II Visibles Invisibles 45
CHAPTER III Epitaphs 73
CHAPTER IV Negation 100
EPILOGUE All Candled Things 120
Bibliography 135
Index 145