Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus

Philosophical and Critical Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-068542-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 375 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eldridge

Eldridge, Hannah Vandegrift

Fischer, Luke

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge is Associate Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Her research focus is literature of the 18th to 20th century, with particular interest in lyric poetry, metrical theory, literature and philosophy, and the relationship between sound and text. Her first monograph, Lyric Orientations: Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community appeared with Cornell University Press in 2015; she has also published on Wittgenstein, Klopstock, Nietzsche, and the contemporary poet Durs Grünbein.

Luke Fischer is a philosopher, poet, and scholar of poetry. His books include The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the "New Poems" (Bloomsbury, 2015) and the poetry collections A Personal History of Vision (UWAP, 2017) and Paths of Flight (Black Pepper, 2013). He has authored and co-edited works on poetry, philosophy, art, and the environment, including the special section "Goethe and Environmentalism" in the Goethe Yearbook (2015). He is an honorary associate of the University of Sydney.