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Standing Again(st): Reencounters of Resistance in Paul Celan's Translative Transformations Mariama Diallo (10733901) European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman) Translation and interpretation studies Literature in German Comparative and transnational literature Poststructuralism Culture, representation and identity History and philosophy of specific fields not elsewhere classified Transnational history Comparative language studies History of empires, imperialism and colonialism Critical theory Philosophy of language Literary theory Resistance Paul Celan Shoah Holocaust Jewish Critical Thought Poetry Translation Memory Remembrance Poetics Literary Theory School: School of Languages and Cultures 470517 Literature in German 470507 Comparative and transnational literature 470514 Literary theory 470304 Comparative language studies 470321 Translation and interpretation studies 470208 Culture, representation and identity 500299 History and philosophy of specific fields not elsewhere classified 500302 Critical theory 500314 Philosophy of language 500319 Poststructuralism 430308 European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman) 430323 Transnational history 430313 History of empires, imperialism and colonialism 130103 The creative arts 130203 Literature 130202 Languages and linguistics 130201 Communication across languages and culture 130499 Heritage not elsewhere classified 130704 Understanding Europe’s past 280116 Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture Degree Discipline: Literary Translation Studies Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy Degree Level: Doctoral <p><strong>The poetic oeuvre of German-language Bukovinian Jewish poet Paul Celan (1920-1970), defined by its haunting confrontation with the Shoah, has received extensive, sustained scholarly attention, being widely recognised as a cornerstone of post–World War II German-language literature. Nevertheless, his impressive corpus of literary translations spanning over forty poets and multiple languages has received comparatively little attention, having only recently sparked a closer examination within specific language contexts. This comparative philological study aims to fill this gap in Celan scholarship by examining his translations from English and Russian into German with the stated aim of drawing out an overarching poetics. In doing so, my study reflects on the interlocutory transformations that evolve between readings of Celan’s poetry and poetics, and his translations of texts by Alexandr Blok, Emily Dickinson, Osip Mandelstam and William Shakespeare, incorporating draft manuscripts from Celan’s literary estate. Celan’s intensive critical engagement with these authors over a period from 1958 to 1967 presents particularly expressive examples of different poetological phases threading from his Bremen and Meridian speeches into the gradual metamorphoses and radicalisation of his poetics in and into language. This allows for an illuminating investigation of his dialogical insistence on the intersecting historical specificities and poetologies unfolding in the encounters between the poets in the pronunciation of their differences, while exposing the actualisation of a poetologic-practical arch. This thesis argues for the development of this arch along the three overlapping but distinctive phases. Throughout them, a thematic triptych emerges that interweaves in the consistency of Shoah remembrance, Jewish critical thought and the resistance to being silenced – or: testimony, remembrance and resistance.</strong></p><p>By embracing Celan’s poetics of viewing meaning as threading through the specificities of our own standing in the world as a means of analysis, this study uncovers new perspectives, potentiating in the encounters of reading in the present, thus continuing an indispensable discourse that reverberates in particular relevance today.</p> 2026-09-30T00:00:00Z Text Thesis 10.26686/sz25-txd1 https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Standing_Again_st_Reencounters_of_Resistance_in_Paul_Celan_s_Translative_Transformations/34030575 Author Retains Copyright