Lyric Orientations : : Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community / / Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Translations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: On Orientation
- 1. Skepticism and the Struggle over Finitude: Stanley Cavell
- 2. The Anxiety of Theory: Hölderlin’s Poetology as Skeptical Syndrome
- 3. Calls for Communion: Hölderlin’s Late Poetry
- 4. Malevolent Intimacies: Rilke and Skeptical Vulnerability
- 5. Figuring Finitude: Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus
- Epilogue: “Desperate Conversation”—Poetic Finitude in Paul Celan and After
- Selected Bibliography
- Index