2002
DOI: 10.5840/ajs2002181/410
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Rilke’s Semiotic Potential

Abstract: This article demonstrates how a new reading of Rilke's poetry can provide a basis for comparing and contrasting the aesthetic approach to art and the language-based approach that foregrounds the role of metaphor and materiality in literary production. Lessing's Laocoön is discussed in terms of an implied dialogue between painting and poetry, which, however, acquires a different valence when the Fifth of Rilke's Duino Elegies suggests that poetry itself functions as a 'metaphorical hypoicon' allowing for shared… Show more

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