Revelation freshly erupting?: The case of Nelly Sachs
AbstractCan modern poetry be said to have a ‘revelatory’ quality, in theological terms? Arguably the strongest candidate for such an accolade is the work of Nelly Sachs. Here is ‘poetry after Auschwitz’, by a Holocaust escapee, of unique religious intensity. Sachs was awarded the Nobel Prize for her...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
2010
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Theology
Year: 2010, Volume: 113, Issue: 874, Pages: 260-266 |
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Summary: | AbstractCan modern poetry be said to have a ‘revelatory’ quality, in theological terms? Arguably the strongest candidate for such an accolade is the work of Nelly Sachs. Here is ‘poetry after Auschwitz’, by a Holocaust escapee, of unique religious intensity. Sachs was awarded the Nobel Prize for her poetry in 1966. And yet her work remains almost completely unknown in the English-speaking world, a state of affairs that surely needs remedying. |
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ISSN: | 2044-2696 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040571X1011300404 |