Finding ourselves atthe crossroads between ecocidal destruction and necessary transformation, we can do worse thanslow down, acknowledge our differences, and learn to read with more care. The lecture asks how we can encounter Rilke’s poems on their terms and our own, while disentangling our readings from outmoded discourses of mastery and mystery and from the industrious gatekeeping of professionalised philology.

How do we read major works of literature and art in new ways in the face of climate change, and how does the practice of attentive reading help us to navigate an increasingly uncertain future? Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies – completed a century ago, the same year in which Eliot’s The Waste Land and Joyce’s Ulysses were published – serve in this lecture as a challenge to the ‘Future Humanities’ in an era of ecological crisis. Astrid Wingler, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences / ERIĪn open discussion and wine reception will follow the lecture and response Caitríona Ní Dhúill, Department of German, SLLC / ERI

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Crichton was a professor of German at the University of Michigan. Will Crichton was a professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Rilke considered this work one of his greatest achievements. Working over the years, the Crichtons have produced a work in English worthy of Rilke’s poetic contribution, which he began in Duino near Trieste beginning in 1912 and completed in Switzerland in 1922. Crichton determined to work toward a translation that would be as straightforward and transparent, yet as lyrically beautiful, as Rilke’s German original.

Long dissatisfied with the highly romantic and often obscure translations in English of Rilke’s great poem cycle, brother and sister Will and Mary C.

To keep this book in stock, it will now be 'printed on demand,' which may require us to offer it at a higher price. Crichtonīuy a downloadable PDF file A Bilingual Edition Society into a slight tremolo of confusion and fright at least.ĭuino Elegies Rainer Maria Rilke Translated from the German by Will Crichton and Mary C. Ramblings, Revelations, and all such ephemera as may appear necessary to bring Rainer Maria Rilke | Duino Elegies | Green Integer Books Green Integer BooksĮssays, Manifestos, Statements, Speeches, Maxims, Epistles,ĭiaristic Jottings, Narratives, Natural histories, Poems, Plays, Performances,

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