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From: Ian Stevens <[log in to unmask]>
A Companion to the Works of Rainer Maria Rilke
Edited by ERIKA A. METZGER & MICHAEL M. METZGER
http://www.boydell.co.uk/866.HTM
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is the best-known German poet of
his generation and is widely appreciated today by readers in
Europe, the United States, and world-wide. Because of the
inventiveness and musicality of his poetic language and the
visionary intuition of his thinking, Rilke's influence extends well
beyond poetry to include religion, philosophy, the social sciences,
and the arts. His works have been widely translated into English,
and new renderings of such poem cycles as The Duino Elegies and
The Sonnets to Orpheus appear frequently. Critics regard Rilke's
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge as a seminal modern novel. The
Companion to Rilke provides essential, up-to-date essays by top
Rilke scholars on a wide range of the major aspects of Rilke's life
and works. The volume follows the chronology of Rilke's career,
emphasizing those works that have met with the greatest critical
interest. Among the topics covered are: Rilke's life and thought; the
writings before 1902; Das Stunden-Buch and Das Buch der Bilder;
the Neue Gedichte; The Cornet and other brief narratives; Malte
Laurids Brigge; The Duino Elegies; The Sonnets to Orpheus; Rilke
as a poet in French; Rilke and the visual arts. Erika and Michael
Metzger (SUNY Buffalo) have written extensively on various
aspects of German literature and have edited significant Baroque
texts.
CONTENTS
Introduction - Erika and Michael Metzger
1 Colored Glass and Mirrors: Life with Rilke - Patricia P. Brodsky
2 The Poetry and Poetics of the Young Rilke, 1895-1902 - James
Rolleston
3 Rilke's Early Narratives - Judith L. Ryan
4 "Das Stunden-Buch" and "Das Buch der Bilder": Harbingers of
Rilke's Maturity - Ralph W. B. Freedman
5 "Neue Gedichte" -- New Poems - Lawrence Ryan
6 "Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge" - George C.
Schoolfield
7 Rethinking Rilke's "Duineser Elegien" at the End of the
Millennium - Kathleen Komar
8 Poesis and the Great Tree of Being: A Holistic Reading of Rilke's
"Sonette an Orpheus" - Alan F Keele
9 Rilke's Poetry in the French Language: The Enigma of
Mythopoietic Reversal - Gerard Bucher
10 Rainer Maria Rilke and the Visual Arts - Karl E. Webb
11 Selected Bibliography
3 b/w illustrations
323 pages
Size: 9 x 6 in
ISBN: 1 57113 052 7
Binding: Hardback
First published: 2001
Price: 75.00 USD, 45.00 GBP
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