Beyond the American Difficult Poem: Paul Celan’s “Du liegst”

This paper presents a close reading of a late poem by German poet Paul Celan, with a view to call into question several critical assumptions relating to modernist-derived “difficulty.” By looking in detail at what makes a poem “difficult” for the reader,a fact highlighted by a comparative approach,...

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Main Author: Xavier Kalck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2017-01-01
Series:Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/8096