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    Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus: Philosophical and Critical Perspectives

    Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus by Eldridge, Hannah Vandegrift; Fischer, Luke;

    Philosophical and Critical Perspectives

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 20 June 2019

    • ISBN 9780190685423
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages304 pages
    • Size 140x208x20 mm
    • Weight 340 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This volume sheds new light on the philosophical significance of Rilke's late masterpiece The Sonnets to Orpheus (1923). The volume features eight essays by philosophers, literary critics, and Rilke scholars, which explore a number of the central themes of the Sonnets as well as the significance of their formal qualities.

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    Long description:

    Written in three weeks of creative inspiration, Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1923) is well known for its enigmatic power and lyrical intensity. The essays in this volume forge a new path in illuminating the philosophical significance of this late masterpiece. Contributions illustrate the unique character and importance of the Sonnets, their philosophical import, as well as their significant connections to the Duino Elegies (completed in the same period).

    The volume features eight essays by philosophers, literary critics, and Rilke scholars, which approach a number of the central themes and motifs of the Sonnets as well as the significance of their formal and technical qualities. An introductory essay (co-authored by the editors) situates the book in the context of philosophical poetics, the reception of Rilke as a philosophical poet, and the place of the Sonnets in Rilke's oeuvre.

    Above all, this volume's premise is that an interdisciplinary approach to poetry and, more specifically, to Rilke's Sonnets, can facilitate crucial insights with the potential to expand the horizons of philosophy and criticism. Essays elucidate the relevance of the Sonnets to such wide-ranging topics as phenomenology and existentialism, hermeneutics and philosophy of language, philosophy of mythology, metaphysics, Modernist aesthetics, feminism, ecocriticism, animal ethics, and the philosophy of technology.

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    Table of Contents:

    Chapter 1. Introduction
    Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge and Luke Fischer
    Part I: Interiority, World-Disclosure, and Constructivism
    Chapter 2. On Inwardness and Place in Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus
    James D. Reid
    Chapter 3. Rilke on Formally Disclosing the Meaning of Things
    Rick Anthony Furtak
    Chapter 4. The Modernism of The Sonnets to Orpheus: Abstraction and Figurality
    Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge
    Part II: Death, Love, and the Beyond
    Chapter 5. Beyond Existentialism: The Orphic Unity of Life and Death
    Luke Fischer
    Chapter 6. Love in Paramyth: On Rilke's Figuration of the Orpheus-Myth
    Christoph Jamme
    Chapter 7. The Feminine in Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus: A Philosophy of Productive Deprivation
    Kathleen L. Komar
    Part III: Ecocriticism and Animal Ethics
    Chapter 8. The Imaginative Ecology of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus
    Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
    Chapter 9. The Pozzo Sonnet: Rilke and the Killing of the Doves
    David Brooks
    Index

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