| Description |
1 online resource (x, 290 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I: On inwardness and place in Rilke's sonnets to Orpheus -- Rilke on formally disclosing the meaning of things -- The modernism of the sonnets to Orpheus: abstraction and figurality -- Part II: Beyond existentialism: the Orphic unity of life and death -- Love in paramyth: on Rilke's figuration of the Orpheus myth -- The feminine in Rilke's sonnets to Orpheus: a philosophy of productive deprivation -- Part III: The imaginative ecology of Rilke's sonnets to Orpheus -- The Pozzo sonnet: Rilke and the killing of the doves -- Index |
| Summary |
This volume sheds new light on the philosophical significance of Rilke's late masterpiece The Sonnets to Orpheus (1923). The volume features eight essays by philosophers, literary critics, and Rilke scholars, which explore a number of the central themes of the Sonnets as well as the significance of their formal qualities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 03, 2019) |
| Subject |
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. Orpheus, Eurydike, Hermes
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Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 fast |
| Subject |
POETRY -- Continental European.
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Eldridge, Hannah Vandegrift, editor
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Fischer, Luke, editor
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| LC no. |
2018054942 |
| ISBN |
9780190685454 |
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019068545X |
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9780190685430 |
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0190685433 |
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9780190685447 |
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0190685441 |
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