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Reading Colour: George, Rilke, Kandinsky, Lasker-Schüler by Rey Conquer (review)
Ist Teil von
German Studies Review, 2020-10, Vol.43 (3), p.619-621
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In order to establish the theoretical contours of the discussion, Conquer’s very well-researched study draws upon a broad range of sources from related studies of other literatures (American, French, English, etc.) to studies of cognitive science and perception, natural science (plants, birds, etc.), linguistics, film, philosophy, and especially art history, while keeping the focus on the literary question about color and how it works, framing the problem between the “brute reality of colour” (20) and its “semantic unresolvedness” (20). Whereas these chapters place emphasis on the construction, the fabrication, of the poems, the next two probe the interactive process of reading poems, where color has cut the cord of referentiality altogether in order to forge possibilities of meaning in relation to other words and usages within the work. Rey Conquer provides a densely documented and detailed, but nonetheless elegantly analytical and insightful discussion (with moments of verve and wit) of the “chromatic topography” (197) of modernist poetry in German language, but her study is also a defense of the art of “close reading” of a poetic text and its intricacies as a basis for the establishing and understanding any poet’s particular, peculiar idiom that, one way or another, colors everything they write.