Description: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.-"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Transformation of Language and Religion in Rainer Maria Rilke. To get started finding Transformation of Language and Religion in Rainer Maria Rilke, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
186
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing
Release
2013
ISBN
1299435173
Transformation of Language and Religion in Rainer Maria Rilke
Description: 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.-"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Transformation of Language and Religion in Rainer Maria Rilke. To get started finding Transformation of Language and Religion in Rainer Maria Rilke, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.