Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition

Informationen zum Autor Judith M. Ryan, PhD, STL, is associate professor of New Testament at the University of St. Thomas School of Theology at St. Mary's Seminary, Houston, Texas. Previously she taught at Catholic University of America, Fordham University, the University of Scranton, College Misericordia, and St. Mary's Seminary and University, Baltimore, Maryland. Klappentext Study of Rilke's poetic development! and ways in which his poetry is embedded in the culture of its day. Zusammenfassung This 1999 book traces Rilke's development from aestheticism to modernism! paying special attention to the way his work engages with other poetry and visual arts. Rilke is now the most widely read and influential German-language poet! and this study is full of new discoveries about his innovative and often profoundly moving poems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction: Rilke's writing desk; 1. Fashioning the self; 2. Arts and crafts; 3. Writing troubles; 4. The modernist turn; Conclusion: restorative modernism; Notes, Indexes.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Ryan
• Assisted by: H. B. Nisbet (Editor), Martin Swales (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.1999
• EAN: 9780521661737
• ISBN: 978-0-521-66173-7
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Cambridge Studies in German
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies