Poetics of the here-and-now: German-language poetry after 2000

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K16802
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: European literature
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Telge Claus 大阪大学, 文学研究科, 特任講師 (90756454)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: Experimental poetry / Contemporary poetry / German poetry

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The key findings of the research project are that, firstly, recent movements in German poetry engage with translation by mapping out the conceptual coordinates for a particular way of writing that is both critical and contemporary in the era of accelerated globalization. Setting out the claim that experimental translation practices, - i.e., experimental forms of translation that sound-wise and/or meaning-wise displace an antecedent text through strategies of appropriation - are creatively used to investigate the cultural politics of ambivalent and often stigmatized symptoms in language, I elaborated new interpretations of works by contemporary German poets. Secondly, German poetry in the 20th and 21st century engages with theories and practices of translation to turn upon itself through its own self-transgression. Both key findings are reflected in my publications.

Free Research Field

ドイツ文学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

The research projected presented German poetry to researchers and readers of poetry in Japan as means of cultural transfer through workshops and seminars. It made them familiar with the transnational and translingual complexities of habitual modes of possessing language and identity.