No Name: Paul Celan’s Poetics of Naming
Name is a powerful sign, and name-giving is also calling one intolanguage. Name identifies, summons and subjects. Paul Celan wasfamiliar with all these uses of name and addresses them in his poeticsand poetry. This article will discuss how poetry like Celan’s, which is heavily influenced by so many...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Santo Tomas
2010-06-01
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| Series: | Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy |
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| Online Access: | http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_7/salminen_june2010.pdf |
| Summary: | Name is a powerful sign, and name-giving is also calling one intolanguage. Name identifies, summons and subjects. Paul Celan wasfamiliar with all these uses of name and addresses them in his poeticsand poetry. This article will discuss how poetry like Celan’s, which is heavily influenced by so many philosophical readings, could form a critique of naming,on a poetical basis towards philosophical concepts that underline problematics of name-giving in poetic text in particular. |
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| ISSN: | 1908-7330 |