Leslie Morris
Biographic Data
| ID | 5425491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Morris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Morris |
| SIGNATURE | MORRIS L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Translated Jew
Translating Czernowitz
The historian Karl Schlögel’s proclamation that Czernowitz is a “real place” and not just a literary topos serves as the point of departure, and the point of contention, for this essay. This essay examines the rhetorical and textual recreations of Czernowitz as “place” on contemporary maps of Jewish mourning and, specifically, in the work of the Czernowitz-born poet Rose Ausländer. Czernowitz poses an interesting problem for contemporary literary…
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany
Morris, Leslie, and Karen Remmler, eds. Contemporary Writing in Germany: An Anthology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 245 pp. $60.00 hardcover. Less than ten years ago, English-speaking readers had virtually no access to contemporary German-language writing. Today Morris and Remmler's anthology is one of five anthologies of German writing in English translation. Elena Lappin (Ed.) and Krishna Winston's (Trans.) Voices, German Words:…
Unlikely History
In the English-speaking world, it is generally believed that there are very few Jews living and thriving in Germany. Yet, there has been an unlikely postwar history 1945-2001 that has been somewhat re
The Sound of Memory
Not my language but a voice chanting in patterns survives on earth not history's bones but vocal tones. Allen Ginsberg Elegies for Neal Cassady The critical vocabulary that has emerged and evolved to describe and analyze spaces of Jewish absence and memory in Germany has been, for most part, visual. In this essay, I shift emphasis from visual to aural, to of in poetic texts and echo of elegiac that constitutes representation of Shoah. I maintain …
Showing Our Colors
The Jew's Body
An Interview with Anna Sokolow
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Translating Czernowitz
The historian Karl Schlögel’s proclamation that Czernowitz is a “real place” and not just a literary topos serves as the point of departure, and the point of contention, for this essay. This essay examines the rhetorical and textual recreations of Czernowitz as “place” on contemporary maps of Jewish mourning and, specifically, in the work of the Czernowitz-born poet Rose Ausländer. Czernowitz poses an interesting problem for contemporary literary…
An Interview with Anna Sokolow
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Jew's Body
Showing Our Colors
The Sound of Memory
Not my language but a voice chanting in patterns survives on earth not history's bones but vocal tones. Allen Ginsberg Elegies for Neal Cassady The critical vocabulary that has emerged and evolved to describe and analyze spaces of Jewish absence and memory in Germany has been, for most part, visual. In this essay, I shift emphasis from visual to aural, to of in poetic texts and echo of elegiac that constitutes representation of Shoah. I maintain …
Unlikely History
In the English-speaking world, it is generally believed that there are very few Jews living and thriving in Germany. Yet, there has been an unlikely postwar history 1945-2001 that has been somewhat re
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany
Morris, Leslie, and Karen Remmler, eds. Contemporary Writing in Germany: An Anthology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 245 pp. $60.00 hardcover. Less than ten years ago, English-speaking readers had virtually no access to contemporary German-language writing. Today Morris and Remmler's anthology is one of five anthologies of German writing in English translation. Elena Lappin (Ed.) and Krishna Winston's (Trans.) Voices, German Words:…
Translating Czernowitz
The historian Karl Schlögel’s proclamation that Czernowitz is a “real place” and not just a literary topos serves as the point of departure, and the point of contention, for this essay. This essay examines the rhetorical and textual recreations of Czernowitz as “place” on contemporary maps of Jewish mourning and, specifically, in the work of the Czernowitz-born poet Rose Ausländer. Czernowitz poses an interesting problem for contemporary literary…
The Translated Jew
Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · European history and politics (2 works) · German (2 works) · Germany (2 works)