Hölderlin’s Dionysiac Poetry The Terrifying-Exciting Mysteries

“Lucas Murrey shares with his subject, Hölderlin, a vision of the Greeks asbringing something vitally important into our poor world, a vision of which few classical scholars are now capable.” —Richard Seaford, author of Money and the Early Greek Mind. Homer, Tragedy, Philosophy and Dionysus. “Hölder...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murrey, Lucas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • PART I: Dionysiac and Visualised Chronotopes
  • Chapter 2: The Dionysiac Chronotope
  • Chapter 3: The Visualised Chronotope
  • Chapter 4: Dionysiac Language
  • PART II: The Time After
  • Chapter 5: Visual and Linguistic Nihilism
  • Chapter 6: “Wakers-of-the-Dead”
  • Part III: Hölderlin’s Retrieval of Dionysiac and Visualised Chronotopes
  • Chapter 7: The Dionysiac Chronotope (Pre-1799-1799)
  • Chapter 8: The Dionysiac Chronotope (1799-1802)
  • Chapter 9: The Dionysiac Chronotope (1802-1804 and after)
  • Chapter 10: Dionysiac Language (Pre-1799-1802)
  • Chapter 11: Dionysiac Language (1802-1804 and after)
  • PART IV: Conclusion
  • Chapter 12: Nationalism
  • Chapter 13: Christianity
  • Chapter 14: Hölderlinian Hyperabstractions
  • CODA: “Holy Madness”?
  • Index
  • Bibliography