LEADER 04711nam 2200829 450 001 9910809354903321 005 20220204002212.0 010 $a0-8232-5631-6 010 $a0-8232-5629-4 010 $a0-8232-5632-4 010 $a0-8232-6133-6 010 $a0-8232-5630-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823256327 035 $a(CKB)3710000000094271 035 $a(EBL)3239876 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001329947 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11719032 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001329947 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11344193 035 $a(PQKB)11269712 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000985623 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239876 035 $a(DE-B1597)555217 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823256327 035 $a(OCoLC)878144479 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58907 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239876 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10852120 035 $a(OCoLC)923764323 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1653203 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30391762 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30391762 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000094271 100 $a20140331h20142014 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe rilke alphabet /$fUlrich Baer ; translated by Andrew Hamilton 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 300 $aOriginally published in German as: Das Rilke-Alphabet. Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 2006. 311 0 $a1-322-96517-X 311 0 $a0-8232-5628-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Abbreviations --$tPreface: ??The Whole Dictation of Existence?? --$tAcknowledgments --$tA for Ashanti --$tB for Buddha --$tC for Circle --$tD for Destiny Disrupted --$tE for Entrails --$tF for Frogs --$tG for God --$tH for Hair --$tI for Inca --$tJ for Jew Boy --$tK for Kafka and King Lear --$tL for Larean --$tM for Mussolini --$tN for Nature --$tO for O --$tP for Proletarian --$tQ for Quatsch --$tR for Rose --$tS for Stampa --$tT for Tower --$tU for Un- --$tV for Vagabond, or Being Outside --$tW for Worm --$tX for Xaver --$tY for Y --$tZ for Zero --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aThe enduring power of Rainer Maria Rilke?s poetry rests with his claim that all we need for a better life on earth is already given to us, in the here and now. In twenty-six engaging and accessible essays, Ulrich Baer?s The Rilke Alphabet examines this promise by one of the greatest poets in any tradition that even the smallest overlooked word may unlock life?s mysteries to us. Fueled by an unebbing passion and indeed love for Rilke?s poetry, Baer examines twenty-six words that are not only unexpected but also problematic, controversial, and even scandalous in Rilke?s work. In twenty-six mesmerizing essays that eschew jargon and Teutonic learnedness for the pleasures and risks of unflinchingly engaging with a great artist?s genius, Baer sheds new light on Rilke?s politics, his creative process, and his deepest and enduring thoughts about life, art, politics, sexuality, love, and death. The Rilke Alphabet shows how Rilke?s work provides an uncannily apt guide to life even in our vexingly postmodern condition. Whether it is a love letter to frogs, a problematic brief infatuation with Mussolini, a sustained reflection on the Buddha, the evasion of the influence of powerful precursors, or the unambiguous assertion that freedom must be lived in order to be known, Rilke?s writings pull us deeply into life. Baer?s decades-long engagement with Rilke as a scholar, translator, and editor of Rilke?s writings allows him to reveal unique aspects of Rilke?s work. The Rilke Alphabet will surprise and delight Rilke fans, intrigue newcomers to his work, and deepen every reader?s sense of the power of poetry to penetrate the mysteries and confusions of our world. 606 $aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays$2bisacsh 610 $aDuino Elegies. 610 $aLetters to a Young Poet. 610 $aModern European Poetry. 610 $aMussolini. 610 $aRainer Maria Rilke. 610 $aRilke. 610 $aSonnets to Orpheus. 610 $aartists' responses. 610 $apoetry. 610 $apolitics. 615 7$aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays. 676 $a831.912 700 $aBaer$b Ulrich$0327713 702 $aHamilton$b Andrew 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809354903321 996 $aThe rilke alphabet$94109251 997 $aUNINA