Revelation freshly erupting?: The case of Nelly Sachs

AbstractCan modern poetry be said to have a ‘revelatory’ quality, in theological terms? Arguably the strongest candidate for such an accolade is the work of Nelly Sachs. Here is ‘poetry after Auschwitz’, by a Holocaust escapee, of unique religious intensity. Sachs was awarded the Nobel Prize for her...

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Published in:Theology
Main Author: Shanks, Andrew 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2010
In: Theology
Year: 2010, Volume: 113, Issue: 874, Pages: 260-266
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Summary:AbstractCan modern poetry be said to have a ‘revelatory’ quality, in theological terms? Arguably the strongest candidate for such an accolade is the work of Nelly Sachs. Here is ‘poetry after Auschwitz’, by a Holocaust escapee, of unique religious intensity. Sachs was awarded the Nobel Prize for her poetry in 1966. And yet her work remains almost completely unknown in the English-speaking world, a state of affairs that surely needs remedying.
ISSN:2044-2696
Contains:Enthalten in: Theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0040571X1011300404