Kristina Mendicino & Dominik Zechner 
Thresholds, Encounters [EPUB ebook] 
Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology

Paul Celan’s works dwell on the threshold between the extremes of poetic expression and philosophical reflection. The divergent literary and critical idioms that have marked Celan’s writing—and that Celan’s writing has come to mark for others (Hamacher, Derrida, Szondi)—thus call for a new philology. This philology cannot be situated within presupposed genres or fields but rather explores the ways in which poetic and philosophical ambitions meet in texts by, and on, Celan. The first part of
Thresholds, Encounters (’Ex-posing the Poem’) speaks to issues of history, ecology, and aurality; the second part (’Language Dislodged’) delves into Celan’s articulations of encounter, positionality, and translation. Throughout, contributors probe the consequences of Celan’s poetry for thinking and writing, while inviting readers from different disciplinary spaces to further pace out the liminal zones opened by his oeuvre.

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Acknowledgments

Dis-positions: Introduction


Kristina Mendicino and Dominik Zechner




Part 1: Ex-posing the Poem




History



1. “In the Swell of Wandering Words”: Celan’s “Sprich auch du”


Michael G. Levine



2. A Different
Witness: Bearing with the Past in Paul Celan’s “Engführung”


Simone Stirner




Ecology



3. Flower Talk


Jan Mieszkowski



4. Poetic Involution: Adorno, Celan, Nature


Natalie Lozinski-Veach




Aurality



5. Allophony: Celan’s
Niemandsrosen-Lieder


Michael Auer



6. “A Chest Full of Cello Boughs”: The Sonorous Force of Writing in Deconstructive Readings of Celan


Naomi Waltham-Smith




Part 2: Language Dislodged




Encounters



7.
A limine


Kristina Mendicino



8. With—Paul Celan


Pasqual Solass




Positions



9. Occupiability


Sarah Stoll, trans. Aida Feng



10. For Shame of Language


Dominik Zechner




Translations



11. Poetic Approach: Celan’s Radio Essay “Die Dichtung Ossip Mandelstamms”


Irina Kogan



12. The Mimetic Desire of Translation: Reading Celan and Derrida with Girard


Christine Frank



List of Contributors

Index

O autorze

Kristina Mendicino is Associate Professor of German Studies at Brown University. She is the author of
Announcements: On Novelty and
Passive Voices (On the Subject of Phenomenology and Other Figures of Speech), both published by SUNY Press.
Dominik Zechner is Assistant Professor of German at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.