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Georg Trakl’s poetry : toward a union of opposites

By Richard Detsch

Book information

Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Year
1983
ISBN
027100343X 9780271003436
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13969488 bytes)
Series
The Penn state series in German literature.
Pages
0\159
Topic
Literature Poetry
Time added
2017-03-11 06:32:49
-- 1887-1914GeorgTrakl

Description

The chaotic mixture of elements in Trakl's poems is more apparent than real, this book argues, thus challenging the 'Orphic' view of Walther Killy and his followers. A dream of unity - one of the most ancient dreams in human history - is in fact reflected in all of Trakl's work.The recurring themes in Trakl's poetry are brought into focus through Dr. Detsch's literary, psychological, and philosophical analysis: the union of male and female in incest from the Jungian standpoint, the union of life and death from the Heideggerian standpoint and that of German Romanticism as represented by Novalis, the union of good and evil from the Dostoyevskian or Nietzschean standpoint, the mixture of images from the Goethean definition of symbolism.Trakl (1887-1914) is presented as a poet whose lyric voice sounded a cry of hope in its deepest despair. As Dr. Detsch's generous quotations from the poet's work (in the original German) make clear, Georg Trakl sought poetic expression for a union of opposites.

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