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Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0521661730, 9780521661737, 9780511004049
LCC
PT2635.I65 Z8528 1999
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1170912 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in German
Pages
268\270
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Judith Ryan traces Rilke's development from aestheticism to modernism, paying special attention to the way his work engages with other poetry and the visual arts. Taking a skeptical view of Rilke's own myth of himself as a solitary genius, Ryan shows how deeply his writing is embedded in the culture of its day. Rilke is now the most widely-read and influential German-language poet, and this study is full of surprising discoveries about his innovative and often profoundly moving poems.

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