Output details
29 - English Language and Literature
University of East Anglia
Chapter title
Rilke auf Capri
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Rotten-Vlg
Book title
Rilke: Les jours d'Italie, Die italienischen Tage
ISBN of book
978-3905756623
Year of publication
2009
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This commissioned article is the first to closely examine Rilke’s two ‘working winters’ on Capri in 1906/ 1908 and the diverse poems and translations produced there. It draws on published and unpublished documents, including personal memoirs and letters, as well as the history of the island. It argues that Capri represents for Rilke an encounter with the classical, ‘pre-Roman’ world that is also related to the idea of Egypt, ‘elemental’ landscapes anticipating the Duino Elegies and the Spätwerk. Catling traces the beginnings of a new ‘poetics of space’ in this experience of the landscape, a poetics crucial to Rilke’s later development.
