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This volume traces Rilke’s struggle to affirm death’s unity with life. It examines selections from the poet’s letters and novel, “The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge”, analyzing his inexplicable popularity in America, his unexpected attention to the scientific accuracy of his poetic images and his surprising use of humor. Rilke’s primary concern, in both his prose and poetry, was always death, his goal being to affirm its unity with life. All this culminates in Rilke’s masterpiece, the 860-line poem, “Duinese Elegies”, the discussion of which shows these elements fusing to articulate, in remarkable and thrilling poetry, the affirmation of the unity of ‘life-AND-death.’ This work elucidates the puzzling structure of the poem. Appendices include a discussion of Rilke and God, and a definitive listing of English translations of the “Elegies”.

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts – the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

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Often regarded as the greatest German poet of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) remains one of the most influential figures of European modernism. In this Companion, leading scholars offer informative and thought-provoking essays on his life and social context, his correspondence, all his major collections of poetry including most famously the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, and his seminal novel of Modernist anxiety, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Rilke’s critical contexts are explored in detail: his relationship with philosophy and the visual arts, his place within modernism and his relationship to European literature, and his reception in Europe and beyond. With its invaluable guide to further reading and a chronology of Rilke’s life and work, this Companion will provide an accessible, engaging account of this extraordinary poet whose legacy looms so large today.

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A highly original selection of poems by this greatest of modern poets, both well-known favorites and new discoveries, all of them rendered in new versions that combine contemporary speech with Rilke’s inimitable poetic voice, a voice that is by turns somber, majestic, and remarkably playful. This collection, drawing primarily on Rilke’s extremely rich middle period and concluding with a selection from his late Sonnets to Orpheus, offers a clear, powerful, and contemporary Rilke. David Young’s introduction charts the crucial growth of the poet’s modernism in his Paris years, finding in his admiration for artists like Cezanne, Rodin, and Van Gogh a new conception both of the working artist and of art’s true subject matter.

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Even after the end of modernism and postmodernism, grandiose fantasies of artifice and self-reference still resonate in the social constructivism of current literary and cultural theory: in the idea that we can perform or construct identities or social roles without external constraint, as if we had consumer choice of self. Larson Powell’s book posits nature as a limit to such fantasies, redefining aesthetic modernity’s conception of and relation to nature and therefore its relation to reality. Powell’s term, the Technological Unconscious, refers both to the intersection between psychoanalysis and theories of modernism and to the philosophical mediation between history and nature, a motif important from Kant to Adorno. The book’s four chapters center on the representation of nature in German prose and — especially — poetry by Rilke, Benn, Brecht, and Doeblin from the years 1900 to 1945. In connection with these works, Powell analyzes the conceptions of subject and system in the theories of Adorno, Luhmann, and Lacan and their relation to their complement, nature. The Technological Unconscious is thus an important polemical intervention both in the debates over interdisciplinarity and in those between eclectic culturalist theories such as New Historicism and postcolonialism on the one hand and systems theory and psychoanalysis on the other.

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Poetics deal with the structure, formation, and history especially of literary texts. This volume concentrates on the poetics of lyrical texts: poetological lyric poetry from 1780-1930 and its contribution to the textual theory in Germany (programmatically, academic, and scholarly), as well as its reception in England and France.

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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is frequently acclaimed as the greatest poet writing in German in the twentieth century, and the ‘Duino Elegies’ are regarded as his crowning poetic achievement as a poet. — The ten contributions that make up this book, all close readings, deal with Rilke’s language and imagery as a means of highlighting the poetic qualities of these poems. The interpretations also confront the reader with the great themes of Rilke’s oeuvre, presented in a cycle that moves gradually to an acceptance of the limitations of human life and death.
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