“breathturn: the ‘christology’ of paul celan”
Facilitated by Alexandra Green, MDiv Candidate, Yale Divinity School:
My interest in Celan sprouted out of a general fascination with the relationship between our understanding of language and our understanding of God. I'm particularly interested in Celan's "Christology" i.e. how his allusions to the Incarnation are used to both rupture through an idea of "God" and also preserve some sense of "God" through a re-location of "God" in time, the role played by his simultaneous summoning of both Jewish and Christian diction and imagery in his poetics, and how he understands his poetics in relation to these textual traditions. This includes the 'warping' of the German language and how that relates to these textual and christological interests.
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