Lyric orientations
Subtitle: Hölderlin, Rilke, and poetics of community
By: Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge
Series: Signale: modern German letters, cultures, and thought; Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Ithaca, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780801479328; 9780801456954
Subjects: German poetry; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: "A Signale book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. on orientation; title: Skepticism and the struggle over finitude: Stanley Cavell; title: The anxiety of theory: Hölderlin's poetology as skeptical syndrome; title: Friedrich Hölderlin, "Blödigkeit," "das nächste Beste," "Andenken"; title: Calls for communion: Hölderlin's late poetry; title: Malevolent intimacies: Rilke and skeptical vulnerability; title: Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonette an Orpheus (excerpts); title: Figuring finitude: Rilke's sonnets to orpheus; title: Epilogue. "Desperate conversation"; poetic finitude in Paul Celan and after.