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Hoelderlin and the Poetry of Tragedy - Readings in Sophocles, Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Benjamin (Hardcover, New)
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Hoelderlin and the Poetry of Tragedy - Readings in Sophocles, Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Benjamin (Hardcover, New)
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Hoelderlin (1770-1843) is the magnificent writer whom Nietzsche
called 'my favourite poet'. His writings and poetry have been
formative throughout the twentieth century, and as influential as
those of Hegel, his friend. At the same time, his madness has made
his poetry infinitely complex as it engages with tragedy, and
irreconcilable breakdown, both political and personal, with anger
and with mourning. This study gives a detailed approach to
Hoelderlin's writings on Greek tragedy, especially Sophocles, whom
he translated into German, and gives close attention to his poetry,
which is never far from an engagement with tragedy. Hoelderlin's
writings, always fascinating, enable a consideration of the various
meanings of tragedy, and provide a new reading of Shakespeare,
particularly Julius Caesar, Hamlet and Macbeth; the work proceeds
by opening into discussion of Nietzsche, especially The Birth of
Tragedy. Since Hoelderlin was such a decisive figure for Modernism,
to say nothing of modern Germany, he matters intensely to such
differing theorists and philosophers as Walter Benjamin, Theodor
Adorno, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, all
of whose views are discussed herein. Drawing upon the insights of
Hegelian philosophy and psychoanalysis, this book gives the
English-speaking reader ready access to a magnificent body of
poetry and to the poet as a theorist of tragedy and of madness.
Hoelderlin's poetry is quoted freely, with translations and
commentary provided. This book is the first major account of
Hoelderlin in English to offer the student and general reader a
critical account of a vital body of work which matters to any study
of poetry and to all who are interested in poetry's relationships
to madness. It is essential reading in the understanding of how
tragedy pervades literature and politics, and how tragedy has been
regarded and written about, from Hegel to Walter Benjamin.
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