{"product_id":"9798765125014","title":"Emprise of Poetry Durs Grünbein, America, Antisemitism, and the Pursuit of Liberty","description":"\u003ch3\u003eNew Directions in German Studies\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eEmprise of Poetry\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eDurs Grünbein, America, Antisemitism, and the Pursuit of Liberty\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMichael Eskin | Imke Meyer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Comparative Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Emprise of Poetry \u003c\/i\u003eanalyzes \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe insidious entwinement of anti-Americanism and antisemitism in modern and contemporary German culture through the writings of one of its most acclaimed literary figures: Dresden native Durs Grünbein (1962-).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Eskin offers an unprecedented view of the American-\u003ci\u003ecum\u003c\/i\u003e-Jewish discontents at the heart of modern and present-day German culture through the exemplary lens of the work of Durs Grünbein, the most widely translated and globally honored living German poet, and the only one to have been hailed as the Berlin Republic's “most qualified contemporary candidate for the office of German national poet.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet as Eskin outlines, Grünbein's work contains a paradoxical and tension-filled twofold self-construction: as an idiosyncratically '\u003ci\u003eAmerican\u003c\/i\u003e' poet and Ezra Pound's vociferously philosemitic heir, who merely happens to be writing in German, as it were, conjoined with an avidly anti-American \u003ci\u003eGerman \u003c\/i\u003epoet who writes emphatically, and not always savorily, \u003ci\u003eas a German\u003c\/i\u003e and a self-proclaimed heir to the legacies of Celan and Kafka – most notably, on matters American and Jewish. Against the foil of these tensions, Eskin traces and documents postwar German high culture's persisting inability to purge itself of ideological toxins that leach into the mainstream from centuries-old prejudices and antagonisms revolving around Germany's love-hate bond with America as well as its ostensibly enduring suspicion and antipathy toward Jews.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eskin's deep dive into the '\u003ci\u003eAmerican\u003c\/i\u003e' Grünbein's apparent philosemitism coupled with the \u003ci\u003eGerman\u003c\/i\u003e Grünbein's antisemitically-inflected anti-Americanism reveals the fault lines underlying the complex and contradictory legacies and contexts of postwar German culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMichael Eskin\u003c\/b\u003e has taught at Cambridge University, UK and Columbia University, USA. He is a critic, translator, philosopher and publisher, and his books include \u003ci\u003eEthics and Dialogue in the \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorks of Levinas, Bakhtin, Mandel'shtam, and Celan\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003ePoetic Affairs: Celan, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrünbein, Brodsky \u003c\/i\u003e(2008), and \u003ci\u003eDescartes der Metapher: Neun Tauchgänge ins \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eDichterdasein Durs Grünbeins\u003c\/i\u003e (2022).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e12 December 2024\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798765125014\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e360\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e19.84\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51196807250060,"sku":"9798765125014","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_9901b061-d4fd-412b-a082-53bd4e45674f.jpg?v=1782962131","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9798765125014","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}