TY - BOOK

T1 - A Poetics of the Image

T2 - Paul Celan and André du Bouchet

AU - Koch, Julian Johannes Immanuel

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - What is an image? Literary imagery is often understood as figurative speech. But images can also be visual in artworks. They can be abstract, too, if mankind is understood as an image of God. Similarly, Plato often speaks of ideas and forms in visual terms. The question of the image prompted debates in philosophy, theology, and art history for many centuries, which had a profound impact upon two of the twentieth century’s most significant European poets: the German-Jewish poet Paul Celan (1920–1970) and French-Jewish poet André du Bouchet (1924–2001). Through a wide-ranging comparative analysis of these two poets’ work, this study proposes a new understanding of the role of the image in poetry, as well as a new way of reading the two writers’ oeuvres.

AB - What is an image? Literary imagery is often understood as figurative speech. But images can also be visual in artworks. They can be abstract, too, if mankind is understood as an image of God. Similarly, Plato often speaks of ideas and forms in visual terms. The question of the image prompted debates in philosophy, theology, and art history for many centuries, which had a profound impact upon two of the twentieth century’s most significant European poets: the German-Jewish poet Paul Celan (1920–1970) and French-Jewish poet André du Bouchet (1924–2001). Through a wide-ranging comparative analysis of these two poets’ work, this study proposes a new understanding of the role of the image in poetry, as well as a new way of reading the two writers’ oeuvres.

UR - http://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Poetics-Image

M3 - Book

SN - 9781781883563

T3 - Studies in Comparative Literature

BT - A Poetics of the Image

PB - Legenda

ER -