The Poetry Of Gottfried Benn. Text And Selfhood

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Peter Lang
Publisher Place: Switzerland
Publisher Year: 2007
Edition: First Edition

Description: 428 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Studies In Modern Germany Literature. Volume 106.

Publishers Description: This book is the first comprehensive study of Gottfried Benns poetry to appear in English. It covers the entirety of Benns verse, from his early Morgue cycle (1912) and Expressionist poems through to the «anthropological» poetry of his middle period to the «postmodern» Phase II work after the Second World War. Against the background of the poets theoretical writings, this study, drawing upon the classic texts of Benn scholarship, analyzes in detail the major themes of his verse and its distinctive idiom. In particular, this work focuses on Gottfried Benns extended process of rhetorical self-fashioning, his use of classical iconography, color motifs and chiffres , his often confusing historical semantics, the seemingly self-constituting «absolute» poem, and the colloquial idiom of his late verse. The book also engages with the multiplicity of voices in Benns work and their varied textual forms, the hermeneutically variable positions of speech that they articulate and the often contradictory notion of selfhood to which they give rise.

ISBN: 9783039105779