The problem of the ‘absolute’: the desacralized language of Paul Celan’s poetry in the post-Shoah era

The aim of this article is to examine how poetry, in the case of Paul Celan, created its own language after the Shoah. The thesis is that Paul Celan intentionally uses religious language to expose the object, but at the same time he desacralises it. This shift is revolutionary. In the main part of t...

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Main Author: Marczak-Markowski, Jarosław Julian (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor and Francis Group 2023
In: Culture and religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 81-97
Further subjects:B absolute poem
B Witness
B Religion
B Paul Celan
B Poetry
B desacralisation
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