On Unicorns: Rilke and Medieval Noetics
| Autor: | P S Makhlouf |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Forum for Modern Language Studies. 58:172-193 |
| ISSN: | 1471-6860 0015-8518 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/fmls/cqac022 |
| Popis: | Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1910 Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge is fixated on figurations of lost homes which tell of the loss of ‘the poetic measure’, i.e. the decrepit status of art at the fin de siècle and the dominance of commodification. Malte’s viewing of the La Dame à la licorne tapestries is a unique moment of aesthetic plenitude previously unseen in the novel. Through a new reading of the tapestries, this essay investigates medieval precursors to Rilke’s poetics, his concept of intransitive love, and the concept of a ‘dwelling’ in the mind where the psychic traces of the absent object are found. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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