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Transformation of Language and Religion in Rainer Maria Rilke

Transformation of Language and Religion in Rainer Maria Rilke

Wich-Schwarz, Johannes

Hardcover

Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, Book 109

Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 143311481X
ISBN13: 9781433114816
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: Dec 14 2011
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), perhaps the most famous European poet of the twentieth century, exemplifies how the crisis of language inherent in literary Modernism also constitutes a crisis of religious discourse. In Rilke's poetry and prose, language replaces God as the focal point of human experience. Yet despite his rejection of Christianity, Rilke crucially draws on Christian imagery to express his Modernist worldview. Transformation of Language and Religion in Rainer Maria Rilke offers new readings of major texts such as The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge and The Duino Elegies, as well as analyzing some of Rilke's lesser-known works, Visions of Christ and The Letter of the Young Worker.

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