Aestheticization and the Shoah: Heimrad Bäcker's transcript.

The article provides criticism on the transcript "Nachschrift," by Heimrad Bäcker. It says that the transcript includes methods of concrete and visual poetry that present quotations from documents about the Shoah. It shows how the aestheticizing aspects of Bäcker's text. It suggests that the transcr...

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Publicado en:New German Critique no. 109; pp. 27 - 53
Autor principal: Greaney, Patrick
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Duke University Press Winter2010
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Sumario:The article provides criticism on the transcript "Nachschrift," by Heimrad Bäcker. It says that the transcript includes methods of concrete and visual poetry that present quotations from documents about the Shoah. It shows how the aestheticizing aspects of Bäcker's text. It suggests that the transcript should be considered not only as a documentary work but also as a work determined by several forms of incompleteness.