LEADER 03793nam 22005892 450 001 9911008474103321 005 20151002020706.0 010 $a1-282-94680-3 010 $a9786612946806 010 $a1-57113-811-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781571138118 035 $a(CKB)2670000000066891 035 $a(OCoLC)694361466 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10437830 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000431577 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12209963 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431577 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10475587 035 $a(PQKB)11674386 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781571138118 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3003762 035 $a(DE-B1597)674998 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781571138118 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000066891 100 $a20120822d2009|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aYoung Rilke and his time /$fGeorge C. Schoolfield 210 1$aSuffolk :$cBoydell & Brewer,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (xxix, 433 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 08$a1-57113-188-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aVally, Hidigeigei, and others -- Larenopfer: a commentary -- Three diaries, 1898-1900 -- Lou Andreas-Salmone?'s Russian diary, 1900 -- Rilke's diary from Westerwede and Paris, 1902 -- Rilke as reviewer of German-language literature -- Rilke as reviewer of Scandinavian literature -- Poems. 330 $aAlthough Rainer Maria Rilke and his work have been much studied and written about over the past century - as befits the perhaps most important German-language poet of modern times - certain aspects of his early life and career have been neglected or are in need of a fresh look. Accordingly, this book investigates Rilke's life and career from adolescence until the verge of thirty. Here the reader finds the hysterical, harried tutee clinging to Valerie von Rhonfeld; the clever, supercilious, and anxious stroller through Prague of 'Larenopfer;' the narcissistic diarist preening for Lou Andreas-Salome? in Italy and elsewhere; the priggishly high-minded but lethal reviewer of German-language literature; the devoted but delusional presenter of Nordic letters. A final section focuses on thirteen poems or poem clusters composed between 1892 and 1900 and mostly left untouched by Rilke scholarship. While depending heavily on the evidence of the texts themselves, the present author allows himself to conjecture about, for instance, the traces left by the boy's hasty training in Latin; his knowledge - or ignorance - of Czech national opera and popular literature; the genesis of some willfully 'decadent' poems; his odd literary likes and dislikes; and so on. From this 'Wirrnis' (confusion, muddle; one of his favorite words), the young Rilke emerges as a dogged self-educator, and, for all his laments and insecurities and languorous poses, a figure of distinction, gifted with an almost preternatural verbal inventiveness and recondite energy. George C. Schoolfield is emeritus professor of German and Scandinavian Literature at Yale. 410 0$aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered) 517 3 $aYoung Rilke & his Time 606 $aAuthors, German$y20th century$vBiography 615 0$aAuthors, German 676 $a831/.912 686 $aGM 5165$qBSZ$2rvk 700 $aSchoolfield$b George C.$00 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008474103321 996 $aYoung Rilke and his time$94394227 997 $aUNINA