{"product_id":"rilkes-sonnets-to-orpheus-philosophical-and-critical-perspectives-9780190685416","title":"Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus: Philosophical and Critical Perspectives","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge | Luke Fischer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Modern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in three weeks of creative inspiration, Rainer Maria Rilke's\u003cem\u003e Sonnets to Orpheus \u003c\/em\u003e(1923) is well known for its enigmatic\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003epower and lyrical intensity. The essays in this volume forge a new path in illuminating the philosophical significance of this late masterpiece. Contributions illustrate the unique character and importance of the \u003cem\u003eSonnets\u003c\/em\u003e, their philosophical import, as well as their significant connections to the \u003cem\u003eDuino Elegies \u003c\/em\u003e(completed in the same period). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume features eight essays by philosophers, literary critics, and Rilke scholars, which approach a number of the central themes and motifs of the \u003cem\u003eSonnets\u003c\/em\u003e as well as the significance of their formal and technical qualities. An introductory essay (co-authored by the editors) situates the book in the context of philosophical poetics, the reception of Rilke as a philosophical poet, and the place of the \u003cem\u003eSonnets\u003c\/em\u003e in Rilke's oeuvre. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbove all, this volume's premise is that an interdisciplinary approach to poetry and, more specifically, to Rilke's \u003cem\u003eSonnets\u003c\/em\u003e, can facilitate crucial insights with the potential to expand the horizons of philosophy and criticism. Essays elucidate the relevance of the \u003cem\u003eSonnets\u003c\/em\u003e to such wide-ranging topics as phenomenology and existentialism, hermeneutics and philosophy of language, philosophy of mythology, metaphysics, Modernist aesthetics, feminism, ecocriticism, animal ethics, and the philosophy of technology.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889346396311,"sku":"9780190685416","price":10158.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780190685416.webp?v=1781175937","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/rilkes-sonnets-to-orpheus-philosophical-and-critical-perspectives-9780190685416","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}