This article deals with some intermedial aspects of Nelly Sachs' poetical work. The focus is on Nelly Sachs' literary confrontation with music; in particular the article will examine the role played by instruments, in particular the shofar, in the poetry of German-Jewish author. In doing so, a new scientific territory will be broached, since the significance of this old instrument - central to the Jewish religious rites to Sachs' oevre hase been regularly overlooked. The aim of the article is to shaw that the Shofar in Nelly Sachs' poems points to a dematerialization, to the dissolution of boundaries and, above all, to the time to come, to the hereafter in its metaphysical meaning of an after death time. Methodologically, a philological-hermeneutic as well as an intertextual approach is used. In addition, Nelly Sachs' poetry is analyzed under an interdisciplinary lens, taking into account not only the literary, but its musical and religious aspects, as well.

Conterno, C. (2024). „Ausatmungen“. Das Schofar und die Klänge der kommenden Zeit in der Lyrik von Nelly Sachs. Wien : LIT.

„Ausatmungen“. Das Schofar und die Klänge der kommenden Zeit in der Lyrik von Nelly Sachs

Conterno, C.
2024

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This article deals with some intermedial aspects of Nelly Sachs' poetical work. The focus is on Nelly Sachs' literary confrontation with music; in particular the article will examine the role played by instruments, in particular the shofar, in the poetry of German-Jewish author. In doing so, a new scientific territory will be broached, since the significance of this old instrument - central to the Jewish religious rites to Sachs' oevre hase been regularly overlooked. The aim of the article is to shaw that the Shofar in Nelly Sachs' poems points to a dematerialization, to the dissolution of boundaries and, above all, to the time to come, to the hereafter in its metaphysical meaning of an after death time. Methodologically, a philological-hermeneutic as well as an intertextual approach is used. In addition, Nelly Sachs' poetry is analyzed under an interdisciplinary lens, taking into account not only the literary, but its musical and religious aspects, as well.
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Conterno, C. (2024). „Ausatmungen“. Das Schofar und die Klänge der kommenden Zeit in der Lyrik von Nelly Sachs. Wien : LIT.
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