Durs Grünbein

A Companion

Michael Eskin, Karen Leeder, Christopher Young, Michael Eskin, Karen Leeder, Christopher Young

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9783110227949
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110227956
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: German Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Durs Grünbein is the most significant poet and essayist in German today. No other modern German poet has written from such an emphatically European and global perspective, and this volume seeks to present the poet and his work to the English-speaking world in all their significance and breadth. Written by a line-up of international scholars and critics, the volume offers highly readable and wide-ranging essays on Grünbein's substantial œuvre, complemented by specially commissioned material and an interview with the poet. It covers the German and European traditions, and engages with Grünbein's works in the context of a number of relevant topics, such as 'memory', 'urban life', 'mortality', 'love', and 'presence'; it also probes Grünbein's sustained dialogue with the natural sciences and the visual arts.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• A Note on Translations
• Preface
• Durs Grünbein and the Wende
• Durs Grünbein and the European Tradition
• Durs Grünbein and Anglo-American Poetry. Dickinson, Pound, Larkin
• Durs Grünbein and the Poetry of Science
• Philosophy and Poetry in Durs Grünbein’s Prose
• Concept(ion) versus Ekphrasis. Durs Grünbein’s Approach to the Pictorial Arts
• Wunderblock. Durs Grünbein and the Urban Arts of Memory
• ‘Speak, memory!’ Durs Grünbein’s Strophen für übermorgen
• A Poetics of Presence. Travel Cycles in Aroma and Lob des Taifuns
• Europe after the Last Rains. On Ashes for Breakfast
• ‘Cadences in the Gaps of Time’. The Poet, the Past and Porzellan
• Durs Grünbein. A Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index