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Hölderlin and the Consequences: An Essay on the German 'Poet of Poets'

Hölderlin and the Consequences: An Essay on the German 'Poet of Poets'

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Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 3476058174
ISBN13: 9783476058171
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Sep 9 2021
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A sign we are, uninterpreted. Painless we are and have almost / lost the language in a foreign country. Thus begins the second version of Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn dedicated to goddess of memory, Mnemosyne. Hölderlin and the Consequences wants to remember this 'poet of poets' and consider what his unmatched poems have stimulated, even triggered, in others. This scholarly essay examines the legacy of a poet who was, by and large, ostracized in his time, a master of language, who was declared a stranger by his contemporaries until he became a stranger to himself. Hölderlin's multiple experience of foreignness and alienation was later counteracted by often ideologically motivated attempts to appropriate him. Rüdiger Görner presents this complex context as a special case in recent literary history.

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