{"product_id":"poetic-affairs-9780804758314","title":"Poetic Affairs","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetic Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e deals with the complex and fascinating interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920-70), the Leningrad native, US poet laureate, and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky (1940-96), and the most significant contemporary German poet, Durs Grünbein (born 1962).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"At the present juncture of new possibilities for critical strategies, \u003ci\u003ePoetic Affairs: Celan, Grnbein, Brodsky\u003c\/i\u003e sheds, at times, its paradigmatic weight and achieves, beyond boundaries set by codified procedures of discourse, a fidelity to its exploration borne by succinctness of style and the confident subjectivity of informed insight . . . Eskin's book is a valuable illumination of Celan, Grnbein, and Brodsky.\" -- James Brasfield * \u003ci\u003eComparative Literature Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Michael Eskin's study of Paul Celan, Dors Grünbein, and Joseph Brodsky is a bold experiment in biographical criticism. . . . Eskin brings new questions to translation study and persona theory by framing them as ethical practices, and any reader of Celan, Grünbein, or Brodsky will nd much to ponder and appreciate in his meticulously detailed readings of their work.\" -- Mark Payne * \u003ci\u003eModern Philology\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"In his extraordinarily entertaining and original study \u003ci\u003ePoetic Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Eskin strategically uses the Goll affair, the Livilla affair and the Brodsky affair as the concrete basis for a well-grounded analysis of the poetics of three outstanding voices of modern poetry: Paul Celan, Durs Grubein, and Joseph Brodsky . . . With \u003ci\u003ePoetic Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e Michael Eskin proves to be—once again—an astonishing researcher in matters of poetic dialogues, a genuine expert of literary interlocutions.\" -- \u003ci\u003eFocus on German Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This strikingly original study scrutinizes works by three modern poets responding to earlier poets in order to advance a compelling argument about the relation between the personal and public in the realm of literature. Eskin's three 'affairs' show that writing poetry is a messy business and that the richest readings take account of its constant transgression of comfortable boundaries.\" -- Derek Attridge * University of York *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@fmct:Contents  @toc4:Acknowledgments\tiii  Prefatory Note\tiii  Abbreviations\tiii  @toc2:Introduction: On Poetry, Life, Method, and Sundry Affairs\t1  Chapter 1\tCreative Fidelities\t00  Chapter 2\tFrom Encounter to Tryst: Celan and Shakespeare\t00  Chapter 3\tMetaphors of Subjectivity: Gr'nbein and the philosophers\t000  Chapter 4\tWhat's in a Name?: Brodsky and the English Muse\t000  Closing Remarks\t000  @toc4:Appendix: Constellations\t000  Notes\t000  Bibliography\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405572350295,"sku":"9780804758314","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804758314.jpg?v=1730492878","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/poetic-affairs-9780804758314","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}