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The Cambridge companion to Rilke
\"Often regarded as the greatest German poet of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) remains one of the most influential figures of European modernism. In this Companion, leading scholars offer informative and thought-provoking essays on his life and social context, his correspondence, all his major collections of poetry including most famously the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, and his seminal novel of Modernist anxiety, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Rilke's critical contexts are explored in detail: his relationship with philosophy and the visual arts, his place within modernism and his relationship to European literature, and his reception in Europe and beyond. With its invaluable guide to further reading and a chronology of Rilke's life and work, this Companion will provide an accessible, engaging account of this extraordinary poet whose legacy looms so large today\"--Provided by publisher.
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Serious Games: Gerhard Rühm's dokumentarische sonette (1969)
Gerhard Ruhm's 'corona' of sonnets quasi-mechanically manipulates the texts of newspaper reports from 1969, including four on the Apollo 11 moon landing, forcing them into the structure of the Petrarchan sonnet. They are usually regarded merely as a humorous parody of this form but in fact imply a more serious critique of journalism, press manipulation, and the rise of documentary literature in the 1960s. Ruhm continues the literary and linguistic 'play' characteristic of his activities with the Wiener Gruppe in the previous decade, exposing the 'rules of the game' of both poetry and documentarism, paradoxically contributing to a revivification of the sonnet form in the process. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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Serious Games: Gerhard Rühm'sdokumentarische sonette(1969)
Gerhard Rühm's ‘corona’ ofsonnets quasi-mechanically manipulates the texts of newspaper reports from 1969, including four on the Apollo 11 moon landing, forcing them into the structure of the Petrarchan sonnet. They are usually regarded merely as a humorous parody of this form but in fact imply a more serious critique of journalism, press manipulation, and the rise ofdocumentary literaturein the1960s. Rühm continues the literary and linguistic ‘play’ characteristic of his activities with theWiener Gruppein the previous decade, exposing the ‘rules of the game’ of both poetry and documentarism, paradoxically contributing to a revivification of the sonnet form in the process.
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The Cambridge Companion to Rilke
Often regarded as the greatest German poet of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) remains one of the most influential figures of European modernism. In this Companion, leading scholars offer informative and thought-provoking essays on his life and social context, his correspondence, all his major collections of poetry including most famously the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, and his seminal novel of Modernist anxiety, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Rilke's critical contexts are explored in detail: his relationship with philosophy and the visual arts, his place within modernism and his relationship to European literature, and his reception in Europe and beyond. With its invaluable guide to further reading and a chronology of Rilke's life and work, this Companion will provide an accessible, engaging account of this extraordinary poet whose legacy looms so large today.
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AUSTRIA, POETRY OF
Although the langs. of Austrian poetry—Ger. and Germanic dialects—emphasize its closeness to Ger. poetry, the geographical, historical, and political distinctiveness
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Hofmannsthal and England
Hugo von Hofmannsthal's indebtedness to English literature is well known and has received significant critical attention. His reception in England is a less familiar topic. This article sketches the history of translations of Hofmannsthal's works into English in Britain, examines unpublished correspondence with English writers and actors such as Arthur Symons, Harley Granville Barker and John Martin Harvey, and analyses early London performances of \"Oedipus and the Sphinx\" and \"Everyman\". It ends with a review of broadcasts of Hofmannsthal by the BBC Third Programme between 1955 and 1986 and of Michael Hamburger's role as champion of his works. Die englische Literatur hatte bekanntlich einen großen Einfluß auf die Werke Hugo von Hofmannsthals und bedeutende kritische Studien sind diesem Thema gewidmet worden. Seine Rezeption in England ist weniger bekannt. Dieser Artikel skizziert deshalb die Geschichte der britischen Übersetzungen von Hofmannsthals Werken ins Englische, untersucht unveröffentlichte Briefwechsel mit englischen Schriftstellern und Schauspielern wie Arthur Symons, Harley Granville Barker und John Martin Harvey, und analysiert frühe Londoner Aufführungen von \"Ödipus und die Sphinx\" und \"Jedermann\". Er schließt mit einem Bericht über Werke von Hofmannsthal, die zwischen 1955 und 1986 im 'Third Programme' des BBC-Rundfunks gesendet wurden und mit einer kurzen Einschätzung der Bedeutung von Michael Hamburger als Hofmannsthal-Beförderer in England.
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An Englishman Abroad: Literature, Politics, and Sex in John Lehmann's Writings on Vienna in the 1930s
IN THE LATE 1920S AND 1930S Austria was often only obliquely or retrospectively the subject of its own literature. Alienated by Austrofascism, authors such as Ödön von Horváth, Theodor Kramer, Rudolf Brunngraber, and Jura Soyfer did address contemporary social and political reality, but they represent the exception rather than the rule. In their major fictional works, the canonical writers of the period as Broch, Kraus, and Musil tended to look backward at Austria's decline. Stefan Zweig's nostalgia had no room for what he called “Pseudo-Wirklichkeitsreferate” (pseudoreports on reality). His main literary treatment of the political events of this period is couched in symbolic and allegorical form in Triumph und Tragik des Erasmus von Rotterdam (The Triumph and Tragedy of Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1934). Even Joseph Roth's Kapuzinergruft (Capuchins' Crypt, 1938), which includes the Anschluss in its narrative, is heavily weighted toward the past. Other authors, such as Alexander Lernet-Holenia, injected a strong note of fantasy into their retrospectives. Felix Braun's idealism took him far away from contemporary reality and even when he tentatively explored the politics of the 1920s in Agnes Altkirchner (1927), his apolitical nature was clearly in evidence. The same is true of Raoul Auernheimer's novel Die linke und die rechte Hand (The Left Hand and the Right, 1927).It sometimes took non-Austrians to confront head-on the key political events of the 1930s. Der Weg durch den Februar (The Path through February), about the social conditions that led to the 1934 uprisings, is by Mainzborn Anna Seghers and was published in Paris in 1935.
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