The beginning of terror a psychological study of Rainer Maria Rilke's life and work
Beginning with Rilke's 1910 novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The Beginning of Terror examines the ways in which the poet mastered the illness that is so frightening and crippling in Malte and made the illness a resource for his art. Kleinbard goes on to explore Rilke's poetry,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
New York University Press
1993, ©1993
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| Series: | Literature and psychoanalysis
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Jeffrey Berman
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Learning to see integration and disintegration in The Notebooks of Make Laurids Brigge and Other Writings Illness and Creativity
- 3. A mask of him roams in his place differentiation between self and others in The Notebooks and Rilke's Letters
- 4. This lost, unreal woman Phia Rilke and the maternal figures in The Notebooks
- 5. Take me, give me form, finish me Lou Andreas-Salome
- 6. To fill all the rooms of your soul Clara Rilke
- 7. This always secret influence the poet's changing relationship with his father
- 8. Rodin
- 9. Woman within developments leating to The Sonnets to Orpheus and the completion of the Duino Elegies
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index