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Lyric orientations : Hölderlin, Rilke, and poetics of community /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eldridge, Hannah Vandegrift (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2014.
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Hölderlin, Friedrich, > 1770-1843 > Criticism and interpretation.
Rilke, Rainer Maria, > 1875-1926 > Criticism and interpretation.
Hölderlin, Friedrich, > 1770-1843.
Rilke, Rainer Maria, > 1875-1926.
German poetry > History and criticism.
Poésie allemande > Histoire et critique.
POETRY > Continental European.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
German poetry.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. on orientation
  • Skepticism and the struggle over finitude: Stanley Cavell
  • The anxiety of theory: Hölderlin's poetology as skeptical syndrome
  • Friedrich Hölderlin, "Blödigkeit," "das nächste Beste," "Andenken"
  • Calls for communion: Hölderlin's late poetry
  • Malevolent intimacies: Rilke and skeptical vulnerability
  • Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonette an Orpheus (excerpts)
  • Figuring finitude: Rilke's sonnets to orpheus
  • Epilogue. "Desperate conversation"; poetic finitude in Paul Celan and after.