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The Poetry of Gottfried Benn: Text and Selfhood

The Poetry of Gottfried Benn: Text and Selfhood

Travers, Martin
Brown, Peter D. G.

Paperback

Series: Studies in Modern German Literature, Book 106

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 3039105779
ISBN13: 9783039105779
Publisher: Peter Lang Uk
Published: Apr 13 2007
Pages: 436
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
This book is the first comprehensive study of Gottfried Benn's poetry to appear in English. It covers the entirety of Benn's 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 poet's 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 Benn's 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 Benn's 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.

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