Rilke: The Last Inward Man (eBook)

The Last Inward Man

Lesley Chamberlain (Autor)

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2022
256 Seiten
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-78227-720-0 (ISBN)

Infos

When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was increasingly dismissed as apolitical, too inward. In Rilke: The Last Inward Man, acclaimed critic Lesley Chamberlain uses this charge as the starting point from which to explore the expansiveness of the inner world Rilke created in his poetry.Weaving together searching insights on Rilke's life, work and reception, Chamberlain casts Rilke's inwardness as a profound response to a world that seemed ever more lacking in spirituality. In works of dazzling imagination and rich imagery, Rilke sought to restore spirit to Western materialism, encouraging not narrow introversion but a heightened awareness of how to live with the world as it is, of how to retain a sense of transcendence within a world of collapsed spiritual certainty.

Autor

Lesley Chamberlain is a British writer and critic who has written extensively on German and Russian literature and published three novels. Her books include The Philosophy Steamer: Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia, The Secret Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud and Motherland: a Philosophical History of Russia. Nietzsche in Turin is also available from Pushkin Press.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.4.2022
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Classic German Author • critical reception of Rilke • Duino Elegies • Duino Elegies Sackville-West • early twentieth century poet • European Intellectual history • German poetry • I am Dynamite • inner life and creativity • inwardness in literature • John Banville • Lesley Chamberlain • Lesley Chamberlain criticism • modernist poetry studies • New Rilke Biography • Nietzche in Turin • Nietzsche in Turin • philosophy of poetry • Poetic imagination analysis • Rilke Biography • Rilke Duino Elegies • Rilke history criticism • Rilke History Criticsim • Rilke life and work • Rilke literary criticism • Rilke Sonnets to Orpheus interpretation • spiritual modernism • Sue Prideaux • symbolism and poetry • transcendence and materialism • Vienna and Prague literary culture • Western spirituality crisis
• ISBN-10: 1-78227-720-X / 178227720X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78227-720-0 / 9781782277200