Annie's Annotated Bibliography on Death Fugue

I am still struggling to narrow it down. The two directions I am being pulled in are: first in looking towards the past, towards what influenced Celan—the allusions, and then looking towards the future: towards what he has influenced through Death Fugue. The other direction I am thinking about taking my paper is exploring complicated nature of the beauty within the tragedy which I only just found a hint of in my research but it’s out there (see source 4) and I think I could also tie it in with the work I have already done.

. [Encyclopedia entry found through google search]
"Death Fugue (Todesfuge) ." Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature.”
Encyclopedia.com. Accessed 23 Mar. 2020<https://www.encyclopedia.com>.

This article gave me a more wide overview of the poem which was nice because so far I’ve been focused in on just a few lines. It was useful to take a step back and see where else I could take the material in the poem as far as form and historical context.

2. [Scholarly article found through JSTOR]
Roos, Bonnie. “Anselm Kiefer and the Art of Allusion: Dialectics of the Early ‘Margarete’ and ‘Sulamith’ Paintings.” Comparative Literature, vol. 58, no. 1, 2006, pp. 24–43. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4122339. Accessed 23 Mar. 2020.

This source could further develop the claim I made in my last paper as it explores the artwork and allusion and connections between Margarete and Shulamite, all of which I talked about in my paper. If I want to continue down this pathway this is a good source to look to, it also could be useful if I want to look into reader response theory.

3.[Poems based on Death Fugue found American Poetry Review]
Lipman, Matthew. Death Fugue: Jazz. American Poetry Review, 2020, search.lib.byu.edu/byu/record/edsbyu.f6h.141813764?holding=qbmv0ab1p7b6p1qc. Accessed 23 Mar. 2020

These are award winning poems that have been published in the American Poetry Review and take after Celan’s poems, again I think they would be useful if I want to look at the influence his poem has had on the literary world. They would reflect different avenues of interpretation back into the poem because of the material they cover.

4.[Scholarly book review found through LION]
Kligerman, Eric. "UNWANTED BEAUTY: AESTHETIC PLEASURE IN HOLOCAUST REPRESENTATION." Women's Studies Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, 2008, pp. 297-301. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.erl.lib.byu.edu/docview/233657112?accountid=4488. Accessed 23 Mar. 2020 

This is just a book review on a in depth book project that covers the subject of finding beauty amongst the subject of the Holocaust, but it is something that really interests me in Death Fugue and something I would like to find more information on because there is a lot of beauty in the poem whether or not its meant to be there intermingled with the suffering. I think that I could find something to write about with this that would be really interesting and complex.

5. [Scholarly article found through JSTOR]
KAMINSKY, ILYA. “Of Strangeness That Wakes Us.” Poetry, vol. 201, no. 4, 2013, pp. 469–478. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41702951. Accessed 23 Mar. 2020.

I like this article a lot because it showed some of the contentions in Celan’s life—in being a jew and writing about the holocaust in german, in being from a place that “was dropped from history.” It confronts some of the issues that I would also like to confront in the poem.