History And Memory Suffering and Art

by Schweizer, Harold

• ISBN13: 9780838754177
• ISBN10: 0838754171
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Summary

Referring to poets and writers ranging from Sophocles to Paul Celan, from Wordsworth to Thomas Bernhard, and from Proust to Benjamin Fondane, the authors of this collection of essays ponder the relationship between history and suffering and ask what forms of narrative could articulate or mediate such a relationship.
The title, History and Memory: Suffering and Art, implies a tragic collusion between history and suffering, but also a redemptive resolution of history and suffering through memory and art.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
The Suffering of Tiresias in Greek Tragedy	p. 17
"Let me be the calm you seek": Imagination as (Safe)house in Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"	p. 31
Sketch of Proustian Morality: "When the will would fling the reins into the hands of imperious circumstance ..."	p. 43
Poetry and Holocaust: Benjamin Fondane, Rachel Ertel, and Edmond Jabes	p. 60
Oblivion and Memory in Paul Celan	p. 70
The Third Retelling of A11380: Fatal Strategies of Transformative Image/Texts	p. 80
What Are Poets for - in Austria - "after Auschwitz"?	p. 90
Mourning, Melancholia, Music: A Historiography	p. 112
To End the Glorification of Suffering	p. 124
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