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Rilke's sonnets to Orpheus : philosophical and critical perspectives / edited by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge and Luke Fischer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. Orpheus, Eurydike, Hermes.
- Rilke, Rainer Maria.
- Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926--Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 290 pages).
- Other Title:
- Philosophical and critical perspectives
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- This volume sheds new light on the philosophical significance of Rilke's late masterpiece 'The Sonnets to Orpheus'. 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-068544-1
- 0-19-068545-X
- 0-19-068543-3
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