Rainer Maria Rilke: Autobiography, Fiction, and Therapy (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature)

Drees, Hajo

ISBN 10: 0820452637 / ISBN 13: 9780820452630

Published by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers (edition New), 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rainer Maria Rilke: Autobiography, Fiction, and Therapy (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature)
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers (edition New)
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820452637
• ISBN 13: 9780820452630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: New.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Rainer Maria Rilke has been hailed as the most celebrated German-speaking poet of the twentieth century, if not in all history. Rainer Maria Rilke: Autobiography, Fiction, and Therapy gives a comprehensive overview of the autobiographical tendencies in Rilke’s poetry and fiction from his early works to his masterpiece: The Duino Elegies. Particular attention is given to The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Hajo Drees discusses and positions current theories on autobiography and autobiographical fiction and applies these findings to Rilke’s life and creative writing. A close analysis of Rilke’s theory on art and the artist with selected letters to his friends, editors, and family exposes three significant developmental stages dividing Rilke’s work into three distinct phases.

About the Author

The Author: Hajo Drees was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and completed his Abitur at the Gymnasium in Hanover. He received his Ph.D. in German from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1994. He has presented and published on Rainer Maria Rilke, Christa Wolf, the contemporary literature of the Wunderkinder, postmodernism, and teaching pedagogy, including business German. He is Program Director of German at Samford University.