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A Companion to the Works of Stefan George (Paperback, New)
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A Companion to the Works of Stefan George (Paperback, New)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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New, wide-ranging essays on the controversial poet, who was both a
harbinger of Modernism and a critic of modernity. Stefan George
(1868-1933) is along with Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Rainer Maria
Rilke one of the pre-eminent German poets of the twentieth century.
He also had an important, albeit controversial and provocative role
in German cultural history. It is generally agreed that he played a
significant part in the transition of German literature to
Modernism, particularly in poetry. At the same time he was an
outspoken critic of modernity. He believed that only
anall-encompassing cultural renewal could save modern man. Although
George is often linked with the l'art pour l'art movement, and
although his artistic consciousness was formed by European
aestheticism, his poetry and the writings that emerged from the
poets and intellectuals he gathered around him in the George Circle
are above all a scathing commentary on the political, social, and
cultural situation in Germany at the turn of the century. George,
who was imbued with the idea of the poet as a prophet and priest,
saw himself as the Messiah of a New Hellenism and a New Reich led
by an intellectual and aesthetic elite consisting of men who were
bonded together through their allegiance to a charismatic leader.
Some of the values that George proclaimed, among them a
glorification of power, of heroism and self-sacrifice, were seized
upon by the National Socialists, and subsequently his writings
andthose of his circle were considered by some to be proto-fascist.
It did not help his reputation that after the Second World War much
of the criticism of his works was practiced by uncritical,
hagiographic George worshippers. In recent years, however, there
has been a renewed and unbiased interest among scholars and critics
in George and his circle. The wide-ranging and original essays in
this volume explore anew George's poetry and his contribution to
Modernism, the relation between his vision of a New Reich and
fascist ideology, and his importance as a cultural critic. Jens
Rieckmann is Professor of German at the University of California,
Irvine.
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