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29 - English Language and Literature
Edge Hill University
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Book title
Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by Robert Walser
Type
B - Edited book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Black Lawrence Press
ISBN of book
9781936873180
Year of publication
2012
Number of additional authors
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Additional information
Oppressive Light represents the first collection of Robert Walser's poetry in English translation. My translations attempt to accurately capture Walser’s linguistic acts of disappearance, his “countermoves”--poems as spontaneous creations, “out of knowledge and ignorance,” with rhyme and meter being external rather than internal vehicles--against the “significant” and “perfectly structured” verse written by his contemporaries, such as Rilke, Hofmannstahl, and Hesse. Furthermore, the collection allows the scholar the opportunity to fully address and explore the poems’ aesthetic and philosophical implications vis-à-vis Walser’s prose.
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Research group
5 - Poetry and Poetics Research Group
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