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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964951003321

Autore

Willems Brian

Titolo

Hopkins and Heidegger / Brian Willems

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Continuum, 2009

ISBN

9781474211437

1474211437

9781282452916

1282452916

9781441138682

1441138684

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (141 p.)

Collana

Continuum literary studies series

Disciplina

821.8

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-127) and index

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Inscape and Ereignis -- 2. 'The Wreck of the Deutschland' and the Potentiality of Ereignis -- 3. 'Spelt from Sibyll's Leaves' and the Gesture of the Fourfold -- 4. '(Carrion Comfort)': That which is Not Itself -- Appendix: 'Binsey Poplars' and 'The Wreck of the Deutschland' -- Bibliography -- Index --

Sommario/riassunto

Hopkins and Heidegger is a new exploration of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poetics through the work of Martin Heidegger. More radically, Brian Willems argues that the work of Hopkins does no less than propose solutions to a number of hitherto unresolved questions regarding Heidegger's later writings, vitalizing the concepts of both writers beyond their local contexts. Willems examines a number of cross-sections between the poetry and thought of Hopkins and the philosophy of Heidegger. While neither writer ever directly addressed the other's work - Hopkins died the year Heidegger was born, 1899, and Heidegger never turns his thoughts on poetry to the Victorians - a number of similarities between the two have been noted but never fleshed out. Willems' readings of these cross-sections are centred on Hopkins' concepts of 'inscape' and 'instress' and around Heidegger's



reading of both appropriation (Ereignis) and the fourfold (das Geviert). This study will be of interest to scholars and postgraduates in both Victorian literature and Continental philosophy.