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Amir Eshel

Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature

Building 260, Room 204

         

Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2030
Phone: 650 723 0413
Fax: 650 725 8421
Email: eshel@stanford.edu

Interests

Postwar German culture, German-Jewish history and culture from the Enlightenment to the present, and Literary Theory. He is also involved in an interdisciplinary project on Berlin and the urban space.

Education

1998 Ph.D. University of Hamburg, Germany
1994 M.A. University of Hamburg, Germany

Current courses

ESHELOGRAPHY - MATERIALS (Log in required)

Win GERLIT 289. History and Memory in Postwar German, Austrian, and Israel Culture
Win GERLIT 323. The Stakes of Narrative
Spr GERGEN 009. Myth and Modernity

Previous courses

009. Rationalization and the Return of Myth
121A. Modernism and the Jewish Voice (Safran and Eshel)
125. 19th Century Literature and Culture: Romanticism
165A. Berlin: The City of Metaphor
289. History and Memory in Postwar German, Austrian, and Israel Culture

Selected publications

Paul Celan’s Other: History, Poetics, and Ethics. Special issue of New German Critique, 91 (Winter 2004), co-edited with Ulrich Baer: Paul Celan. 57-77. (PDF)

Introduction to special issue of New German Critique,91 (Winter 2004), co-edited with Ulrich Baer: Paul Celan. (PDF)

Against the power of time: the poetics of suspension in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz. In: New German Critique Number 88 (Winter 2003): 71-96.

Between Cosmos and Makom. Inhabiting the World and Searching for the Sacred Space in Jewish Literature. Jewish Social Studies 9.3 (2003): 121-138.

Blumen der Geschichte, Blumen der Erinnerung: Paul Celan und der postmoderne Diskurs. In: Frank Stern and Maria Gierlinger, eds. Die deutsch-jüdische Erfahrung. Beiträge zum kulturellen Dialog. Berlin : Aufbau, 2003. 129-146.

The Past Recaptured: Günter Grass and Alexander Kluge at the turn of the Century. In: Paul Michael Lützeler, ed. Gegenwartsliteratur. Yearbook on Contemporary German Literature 1 (2002):  63-86. Also published in Moshe Zuckermann, ed. Deutsche Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts im Spiegel der deutschsprachigen Literatur . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2003. 181-203.“

Professor Eshel is the author of Zeit der Zäsur. Jüdische Lyriker im Angesicht der Shoah. (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Heidelberg C. Winter 1999.)

Vom eigenen Gewissen: Die Walser-Bubis Debatte und der Ort des Nationalsozialismus im Selbstbild der Bundesrepublik. In: Deutsche Vierteljahresschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, Heft 2 Juni 2000, pp. 333-360.

Das Gedicht im Angesicht. Jüdische Lyriker und die Shoah. In: Merkur, Heft 600 March 1999, pp. 358-366.

Die Wortlaut der Erinnerung. Christoph Ransmayrs Morbus Kitahara. In: Stephan Braese (ed.): In der Sprache der Täter, Wiesbaden 1998, pp. 227-255.

Die hohle Sprache. Die Debatte um George Steiners Das hohle Wunder. In: Holger Gehle, Doron Kiesel, Hanno Loewy, Stephan Braese (ed.): Deutsche Nachkriegsliteratur und der Holocaust, Frankfurt am Main/New York 1998, pp. 317-330.

Zur Topographie der Herkunft in der Lyrik von Dan Pagis und Paul Celan (with Thomas Sparr). In: Mark H. Gelber; Hans Otto Horch; Sigrud Paul Scheichl (ed.): Von Franzos zu Canetti. Jüdische Autoren aus Österreich. Neue Studien, Tübingen 1996, pp.115-128.

Auschwitz als Metapher. Zu Jakob Hessings Gedichte nach Auschwitz. In: Merkur, Heft 530, Mai 1993, pp. 462-464.

Current projects

Professor Eshel is currently working on a book-long project on the poetic figuration of historical narratives.

Professional activities

See Curriculum Vitae : Curriculum Vitae

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