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De zevensprong : 7 Duitstalige dichters van de 20ste eeuw.
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ISBN: 9789079433322 Year: 2009 Publisher: Leuven Uitgeverij P

After every war
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ISBN: 0691117454 1400849616 9781400849611 9780691127798 9780691117454 0691127794 1306046238 Year: 2004 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey

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They are nine women with much in common--all German speaking, all poets, all personal witnesses to the horror and devastation that was World War II. Yet, in this deeply moving collection, each provides a singularly personal glimpse into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood. After Every War is a book of translations of women poets living in Europe in the decades before and after World War II: Rose Ausländer, Elisabeth Langgässer, Nelly Sachs, Gertrud Kolmar, Else Lasker-Schüler, Ingeborg Bachmann, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Dagmar Nick, and Hilde Domin. Several of the writers are Jewish and, therefore, also witnesses and participants in one of the darkest occasions of human cruelty, the Holocaust. Their poems, as well as those of the other writers, provide a unique biography of the time--but with a difference. These poets see public events through the lens of deep private losses. They chart the small occasions, the bittersweet family ties, the fruit dish on a table, the lost soul arriving at a railway station; in other words, the sheer ordinariness through which cataclysm is experienced, and by which life is cruelly shattered. They reclaim these moments and draw the reader into them. The poems are translated and introduced, with biographical notes on the authors, by renowned Irish poet Eavan Boland. Her interest in the topic is not abstract. As an Irish woman, she has observed the heartbreaking effects of violence on her own country. Her experience has drawn her closer to these nine poets, enabling her to render into English the beautiful, ruminative quality of their work and to present their poems for what they are: documentaries of resilience--of language, of music, and of the human spirit--in the hardest of times.


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Verzameld werk
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ISBN: 9789025310813 9025310818 Year: 2021 Publisher: Amsterdam : Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep,

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Verzameld dichtwerk van de Duitse dichter (1920-1970) met vertaling, aangevuld met enkele prozateksten.

Schaltstelle : neue deutsche Lyrik im Dialog
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ISBN: 9789042022829 Year: 2007 Volume: 69 Publisher: Amsterdam [etc.] Rodopi

The Poet's Role : Lyric Responses to German Unification by Poets from the GDR
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ISBN: 9042012072 9789042012073 9789004485792 9004485791 Year: 2001 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL

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This study of contemporary German poetry represents the first attempt to examine comprehensively and at some length the lyric response to the unification period. It sets out to investigate, by means of close textual analysis, whether the German 'Wende' was also a turning-point for poetry, exploring how GDR poets responded both to the revolutionary events of 1989 and subsequently to the new, united Germany. An introductory chapter considers what is distinct about poetry as a genre, especially under censorship or amid historic change, as well as outlining the post-unification 'Literaturstreit'. The following chapter offers a survey of the poet's role in the GDR from 1949 until 1989. Two central chapters then gather the poetry of the 'Wende' and unification as a corpus of work and characterize it, through the elucidation of recurring themes, motifs and techniques. The volume strikes a balance between giving a general overview of poetry written in 1989-1996 and focusing on individual poets whose work is particularly compelling. After identifying broad trends across a wide range of individual poems, collections and anthologies, single chapters therefore examine in greater depth the work of Volker Braun and Durs Grünbein. The concluding chapter addresses the issue of a separate GDR literature. Finally, an extensive, structured bibliography is provided, covering the poetry, literary criticism and cultural history of the period.

Arbeitsbuch Deutschsprachige Lyrik seit 1945
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ISBN: 3825221997 3772029744 3825222004 3825220370 9783825220372 Year: 1998 Volume: 2037, 2199-2200 Publisher: Tübingen Francke

Die verbrannten Dichter : Berichte, Texte, Bilder einer Zeit
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ISBN: 3407807503 Year: 1978 Publisher: Weinheim Beltz und Gelberg

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