Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-16

Part I - Poetics after Auschwitz

pp 17-18

1 - The Poetics of Silence: Nelly Sachs

pp 19-34

2 - “Flaschenpost” and “Wurfholz”: Reflections on Paul Celan's Poems and Poetics

pp 35-52

3 - History and Nature in Motion: Paradigms of Transformation in the Postwar Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann

pp 53-68

4 - Mourning as Remembrance: Writing as Figuration and Defiguration in the Poetry of Rose Ausländer

pp 69-87

5 - On the Fringes: Mistrust as Commitment in the Poetics of Ilse Aichinger

pp 88-106

6 - Nazi Terror and the Poetical Potential of Dreams: Charlotte Beradt's Das Dritte Reich des Traums

pp 107-122

Part II - Tradition and Transgression

pp 123-124

7 - Between Kahlschlag and New Sensibilities: Notes toward a Poetics of Thought after Gottfried Benn

pp 125-136

8 - “Barely explicable power of the word, that separates and conjoins”: Gottfried Benn's Problems of Poetry and Its Poetology of Existence

pp 137-157

9 - Concrete Poetry

pp 158-169

10 - Heiner Müller: Discontinuity and Transgression

pp 170-179

11 - Let's Begin, Again: History, Intertext, and Rupture in Heiner Müller's Germania Cycle

pp 180-199

12 - Rupture, Tradition, and Achievement in Thomas Kling's Poetics and Poetry

pp 200-216

Part III - Comparative Explorations in European Poetics

pp 217-218

13 - Sartre and His Literary Alter Ego Mathieu in Les Chemins de la liberté (1938–49): From the Roads to an Abstract Freedom to the Roads of Authenticity

pp 219-235

14 - André Malraux and Oswald Spengler: The Poetics of Metamorphosis

pp 236-252

15 - Freud's Brain in the Snow: Catastrophe and Creativity in the Poetics of Danilo Kiš

pp 253-266

16 - Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and the Aesthetics of Ohnmacht

pp 267-272

Works Cited

pp 273-294

Notes on the Contributors

pp 295-300

Index

pp 301-310