LEADER 04186oam 22006494a 450 001 9910467880003321 005 20210915043302.0 010 $a1-5017-0105-3 010 $a1-5017-0106-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501701061 035 $a(CKB)4340000000000171 035 $a(EBL)4517874 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001615001 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16340314 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001615001 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14804706 035 $a(PQKB)10322557 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001517300 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4517874 035 $a(OCoLC)938324181 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46795 035 $a(DE-B1597)478252 035 $a(OCoLC)979585079 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501701061 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4517874 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11211163 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL895193 035 $a(OCoLC)950465223 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000000171 100 $a20160205e20162015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLyric Orientations$eHölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community /$fHannah Vandegrift Eldridge 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2016 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource (232 p.) 225 0 $aSignale 300 $a"A Signale book." 311 $a0-8014-5695-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [205]-213) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : on orientation -- Skepticism and the struggle over finitude : Stanley Cavell -- The anxiety of theory : Ho?lderlin's poetology as skeptical syndrome -- Friedrich Ho?lderlin, "Blo?digkeit," "das na?chste Beste," "Andenken" -- Calls for communion : Ho?lderlin's late poetry -- Malevolent intimacies : Rilke and skeptical vulnerability -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonette an Orpheus (excerpts) -- Figuring finitude: Rilke's sonnets to orpheus -- Epilogue. "Desperate conversation" ; poetic finitude in Paul Celan and after. 330 $aIn Lyric Orientations, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of our mortality. She focuses on two German-speaking masters of lyric prose and poetry: Friedrich Ho?lderlin (1770-1843) and Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). While Ho?lderlin and Rilke are stylistically very different, each believes in the power of poetic language to orient us as social beings in contexts that otherwise can be alienating. They likewise share the conviction that such alienation cannot be overcome once and for all in any universal event. Both argue that to deny the uncertainty created by the absence of any such event (or to deny the alienation itself) is likewise to deny the particularly human condition of uncertainty and mortality. By drawing on the work of Stanley Cavell, who explores how language in all its formal aspects actually enables us to engage meaningfully with the world, Eldridge challenges poststructuralist scholarship, which stresses the limitations even the failure of language in the face of reality. Eldridge provides detailed readings of Ho?lderlin and Rilke and positions them in a broader narrative of modernity that helps make sense of their difficult and occasionally contradictory self-characterizations. Her account of the orienting and engaging capabilities of language reconciles the extraordinarily ambitious claims that Ho?lderlin and Rilke make for poetry that it can create political communities, that it can change how humans relate to death, and that it can unite the sensual and intellectual components of human subjectivity and the often difficult, fragmented, or hermetic nature of their individual poems. 410 0$aSignale (Ithaca, N.Y.) 606 $aGerman poetry$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGerman poetry$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a831/.6 700 $aEldridge$b Hannah Vandegrift$01022352 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467880003321 996 $aLyric Orientations$92428302 997 $aUNINA