| Rainer Maria Rilke: The Poet's Trajectory Contributor(s): Daemmrich, Horst (Editor), Durr, Volker (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820474010 ISBN-13: 9780820474014 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $103.79 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Literary Criticism | European - German - Poetry | European - German |
| Dewey: 831.912 |
| LCCN: 2005010089 |
| Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature |
| Physical Information: 185 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Influenced by Hegel and Nietzsche, and inspired by stays in Italy and France, as well as travels to Russia, Spain, and North Africa, Rainer Maria Rilke nevertheless sought desperately to be original. He rejected all id es re ues, whether they were of God, reality, or literature, instead creating his own absolute. He searched for the real, re-formed German poetry, and revolutionized Western narrative prose with Malte Laurids Brigge. While Rilke's work is marked by two cesuras, after which it displays important advances in diction and the figuration of verbal icons, it becomes ever more esoteric. However, there are also constants throughout his oeuvre in thematics, topoi, and diction - for example, the preoccupation with death, figures such as the angel, key nouns, alliterations, and noun sequences. His fear of death drove him to adopt the open, an idea conceived by the dubious mystagogue Alfred Schuler that surfaces throughout Rilke's poetry and triumphs in Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies. |
