Hölderlin’s Dionysiac Poetry The Terrifying-Exciting Mysteries

Hölderlin’s Dionysiac Poetry The Terrifying-Exciting Mysteries / by Lucas Murrey.

This book casts new light on the work of the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 – 1843), and his translations of Greek tragedy. It shows Hölderlin’s poetry is unique within Western literature (and art) as it retrieves the socio-politics of a Dionysiac space-time and language to challenge the estr...

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Main Author: Murrey, Lucas (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Comparative literature.
Germanic languages.
Greek language.
Philology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • PART I: Dionysiac and Visualised Chronotopes
  • Chapter 2: The Dionysiac Chronotope
  • Chapter 3: The Visualised Chronotope
  • Chapter 4: Dionysiac Language
  • PART II: The Time After
  • Chapter 5: Visual and Linguistic Nihilism
  • Chapter 6: “Wakers-of-the-Dead”
  • Part III: Hölderlin’s Retrieval of Dionysiac and Visualised Chronotopes
  • Chapter 7: The Dionysiac Chronotope (Pre-1799-1799)
  • Chapter 8: The Dionysiac Chronotope (1799-1802)
  • Chapter 9: The Dionysiac Chronotope (1802-1804 and after)
  • Chapter 10: Dionysiac Language (Pre-1799-1802)
  • Chapter 11: Dionysiac Language (1802-1804 and after)
  • PART IV: Conclusion
  • Chapter 12: Nationalism
  • Chapter 13: Christianity
  • Chapter 14: Hölderlinian Hyperabstractions
  • CODA: “Holy Madness”?
  • Index
  • Bibliography.

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