Bilingual Autobiographical Poetry of Henry Beissel
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Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of contents
- 1. Introduction to Henry Beissel
- 1.1. Henry Beissel: Life and literary work
- 1.2. Coming to Terms with a Child/ Ein Kind kommt zur Sprache by Henry Beissel: The methods and aims of the analysis
- 2. Memory
- 2.1. Memory in the interdisciplinary context
- 2.2. Where does one’s own memory end?
- 2.3. Trauma in relation to identity and language
- 3. Autobiography
- 3.1. Life writing
- 3.2. Truth or fiction?
- 3.3. The position of the reader in the autobiographical discourse
- 3.4. The narrativization of memory: Does recollecting mean lying?
- 3.5. (Auto)biographical metafiction
- 3.6. The narrativity in poetry
- 3.7. The matter of factuality in poetry and identities in autobiographical poems
- 3.8. Canadian life writing and auto/biography in Canadian criticism
- 3.9. The role of autobiographical writing in the post-war Germany
- 3.10. “Coming to Terms with a Child”/ “Ein Kind kommt zur Sprache” as transatlantic autobiographical metafiction
- 4. Bilingualism and self-translation
- 4.1. Theories of literary bilingualism and self-translation
- 4.2. Autobiographical bilingual memory
- 4.3. Henry Beissel’s bilingualism
- 4.4. Self-translation in Coming to Terms with a Child/ Ein Kind kommt zur Sprache
- 5. Coming to Terms with a Child/ Ein Kind kommt zur Sprache by Henry Beissel: A comparative reading
- 5.1. The figure of the child
- 5.2. Traumatised self
- 5.3. The bilingual title
- 5.4. A comparative analysis of Coming to Terms with a Child and Ein Kind kommt zur Sprache by Henry Beissel
- 5.4.1. “Once upon a Time”/ “Es war einmal”
- 5.4.2. “Country of origin” / “Herkunft”
- 5.4.3. “It’s always today” / “Es ist immer heute”
- 5.4.4. “Dancer from the unknown” / “Tanz aus dem Dunkel”
- 5.4.5. “Never-ending Quest”/ “Abenteuer ohne Ende”
- 5.4.6. “How Thorny the Path”/ “Mühselig und beladen”
- 5.4.7. “Not a Fairytale” / “Kein Märchenland”
- 5.4.8. “Pieces of the Puzzle”/ “Teile des Unteilbaren”
- 5.4.9. “Hither and Thither” / “Hin und her”
- 5.4.10. “Cave Paintings” / “Wochenschau”
- 5.4.11. “O Music!“ / “O Musik!”
- 5.4.12. “Danse macabre“/ “Danse macabre”
- 5.4.13. “Descent” / “Flucht”
- 5.3.14. “Out of Darkness” / “Aus der Neuen Welt”
- 5.5. Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Series Index
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ISSN 2364-2882
ISBN 978-3-631-89882-6 (Print)
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DOI 10.3726/b21168
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About the author
The Author
Paulina Nowak-Kurzyna holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Szczecin (Poland) and is the member of Polish Association for Canadian Studies. Her academic interests focus on poetry, Canadian literature, bilingualism, memory studies and autobiographical writing.
About the book
Paulina Nowak-Kurzyna
Bilingual Autobiographical Poetry of Henry Beissel
The book is the first academic study of Henry Beissel’s bilingual poetic autobiography. The Canadian poet, reflecting on his childhood memories in Nazi Germany, wrote a long poem in English and reinterpreted it in German – his mother tongue, which had been neglected for decades. The study offers a comparative reading of the two distinctly different versions of the poem, juxtaposing various perspectives, voices and recollections. Beissel’s bilingual project is depicted as “memory workshop”, that mediates between cultures. The work examines Beissel’s biography and the theories of memory, autobiography and bilingualism. It refers to metafiction, the poetic child’s figure and writing trauma, as well as explores poetic complexities of memory and identity.
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Table of contents
1. Introduction to Henry Beissel
1.1. Henry Beissel: Life and literary work
2.1. Memory in the interdisciplinary context
2.2. Where does one’s own memory end?
2.3. Trauma in relation to identity and language
3.3. The position of the reader in the autobiographical discourse
3.4. The narrativization of memory: Does recollecting mean lying?
3.5. (Auto)biographical metafiction
3.6. The narrativity in poetry
3.7. The matter of factuality in poetry and identities in autobiographical poems
3.8. Canadian life writing and auto/biography in Canadian criticism
3.9. The role of autobiographical writing in the post-war Germany
4. Bilingualism and self-translation
4.1. Theories of literary bilingualism and self-translation
Details
- Pages
- 180
- Publication Year
- 2023
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631908341
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631908358
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631898826
- DOI
- 10.3726/b21168
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2023 (September)
- Keywords
- Canadian literature Self-translation comparative analysis post-war poetry German writer autobiographical memory
- Published
- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2023. 180 pp.
