1st Edition

Rilke's Early Poetry Visions and Echoes

By Nicholas Carroll Reynolds Copyright 2027
184 Pages
by Routledge

Rilke’s Early Poetry investigates the process of creative labor in Rilke’s earlier poetic works. Using themes that are present in The Book of Hours, The Book of Images, and Eleven Visions, Nicholas Reynolds shows Rilke’s underlying theory of creative labor, which requires the artist to uncover the unconscious, i.e. the self beyond conceptualization. Each chapter highlights a central gesture in... Read more

Foreword, Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman

 

Introduction

 

A Vessel to Navigate a Terrifying World: The Book of Hours

 

Echoes of the Absolute: The Book of Images

 

Rilke’s Visions, Part I

 

Rilke’s Visions, Part II

 

Decidedly Diesseits? The Dimension of the Diagonal in Arendt, Rilke and Kafka

 

Appendix: “On the Poet” (1912), by Rainer Maria Rilke

Biography

Nicholas Carroll Reynolds teaches German in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Trinity University, USA. He also teaches Philosophy and International Studies, as well as a Study Abroad program in Berlin for Trinity’s Center for International Engagement. He specializes in the intersections of modern literature and philosophy, particularly in their ethical/intersubjective aspects and is the author of Sense and Creative Labor in Rainer Maria Rilke’s Prose Works.