Description: Explores the various ways in which poetic and philosophical writing meet in texts by, and on, Paul Celan.
Brief description: Kristina Mendico is Associate Professor of German Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Announcements: On Novelty, also published by SUNY Press, and Prophecies of Language: The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism.
Review Quotes:
"...this book stakes its 'claim of philology' by estranging preexisting critical positions on Celan and fathoming his multivocal idioms as if for the first time." -- Critical Inquiry
"Beautiful and very open in its structure, Thresholds, Encounters is an invitation to dialogue." -- Ilit Ferber, author of Language Pangs: On Pain and the Origin of Language
"The volume demonstrates an exemplary fidelity to a practice of philology that is attentive to language's capacity for ungrounding its propositions. It would not be an exaggeration to describe these performances of reading as tours de force." -- Jason Groves, author of The Geological Unconscious: German Literature and the Mineral Imaginary