Lyric Orientations : Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community /
In Lyric Orientations, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of our mortality. She focuses on two German-speaking masters of lyric prose and poetry: Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) and...
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2016
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.