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Author / Creator:Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926, author.
Imprint:Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2023.
©2023
Description:x, 317 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics and culture ; 233
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture ; 233.
Subject:Rilke, Rainer Maria, -- 1875-1926. -- Duineser Elegien.
Duineser Elegien (Rilke, Rainer Maria)
Poetry.
Poetry.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13017602
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Other uniform titles:Travers, Martin,
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. Duineser Elegien.
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. Duineser Elegien. English.
ISBN:9781640140981
1640140980
9781800102637
9781800102644
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Rilke continues to be the most read and discussed German poet of the modern period. The Duino Elegies, together with the Sonnets to Orpheus, remain his greatest achievement. The themes of the ten elegies - and the conceptual world unique to Rilke from which they emerge - can best be understood through their poetic form: their imagery and neologistic formations, their angular syntax, their abrupt changes of tone and linguistic register, their use of multiple personae and speaking voices, and the often-ironic self-presentation of the author. Commentators, however, have often treated these features as mere formal devices that we can somehow see through to get to what really matters, that is, to what Rilke has to say about the human condition or the meaning of life, to his philosophy or worldview. On the contrary, they are constitutive of meaning in the elegies, and understanding them is crucial to our experience of reading Rilke's work. The purpose of this book is to make such features visible and to explain them to the reader as clearly as possible. This is the first full-length book in English devoted to the elegies in over thirty years. It offers an entirely new translation of each elegy, paired with the original German text, and a close reading of each"--
Other form:Online version: Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. Duino elegies Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2023 9781800102637

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