Space, Place and Poetry in English and German, 1960-1975

• Main Author: Thomas, Nicola (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
• Subjects: Comparative literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; British literature.; European literature.; Comparative Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; European Literature.

Space, Place and Poetry in English and German, 1960-1975 examines the work of Paul Celan, J. H. Prynne, Derek Mahon, Sarah Kirsch, Edwin Morgan and Ernst Jandl, bringing together postwar English- and German-language poetry and criticism on the theme of space, place and landscape. Nicola Thomas highl...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: the case for comparison
• 2. Language as landscape in J. H. Prynne and Paul Celan
• 3. Excavation, expansion and enclosure: Paul Celan's 'Engführung' (1959) and J. H. Prynne's 'The Glacial Question, Unsolved' (1969)
• 4. Negotiating home in the work of Derek Mahon and Sarah Kirsch
• 5. Form and community: Derek Mahon's 'Beyond Howth Head' (1972) and Sarah Kirsch's 'Wiepersdorf' cycle (1973)
• 6. Remapping space and place in Edwin Morgan and Ernst Jandl
• 7. Public space and power: Edwin Morgan's 'The Starlings in George Square' (1968) and Ernst Jandl's 'wien: heldenplatz' (1966)
• 8. Conclusion: geometries and geographies of comparison.