The Dead Speak
On the Legibility of Trees in The Aeneid , Gerusalemme liberata , and Die Judenbuche
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9855667 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dania Hückmann (Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 171-186 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Germanic Review Literature Culture Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8890 • E-ISSN: 1930-6962 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00168890.2015.1056079 |
| OpenAlex | W1833433907 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article considers the beech tree in Annette Droste-Hülshoff's Die Judenbuche as a site where the dead return, alongside Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata and Virgil's The Aeneid. I will examine the role of trees as sites of testimony to violence on the one hand, and the issue of deciphering this testimony on the other. I will discuss how these trees serve as a locus where the past appears in the present, and show how these texts generate this presence through the use of tense and pronouns. I propose that trees serve at once to preserve and to enclose the dead in Tasso, Virgil, and Droste-Hülshoff's Realist novella. This double structure of containment offers insight into how reality is constructed in Poetic Realism
Art · Legibility · Literature · Novella · Realism · Visual arts · German Literature and Culture Studies · Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies · Literature and Cultural Memory · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |