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  • Rilke's Early Poetry

    Visions and Echoes

    Series series Among the Victorians and Modernists
    Rilke’s Early Poetry investigates the process of creative labor in Rilke’s earlier poetic works. Using themes that are present in The Book of Hours, The Book of Images, and Eleven Visions, Nicholas Reynolds shows Rilke’s underlying theory of creative labor, which requires the artist to uncover the unconscious, i.e., the self beyond conceptualization. Each chapter highlights a central gesture in ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Radiological Anatomy for Radiation and Particle Therapy

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book is exceptional in addressing the common radiological anatomical challenges of target volume delineation faced by clinicians on a daily basis. The clear guidance that it provides on how to improve target volume delineation will help readers to obtain the best possible clinical outcomes in response to radiation and particle therapy.The first section of the book presents the fundamentals of ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Sense and Creative Labor in Rainer Maria Rilke's Prose Works

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is an investigation of the role of creative labor and the five senses in Rainer Maria Rilke’s prose works, including his “Primal Sound” essay, the Stories of God, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and his monograph on Auguste Rodin. It is about several protagonists’ quest to achieve creative labor by reconnecting spirit or the unconscious to the hand. There are many difficulties in ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Aging A-Z

    Concepts Toward Emancipatory Gerontology

    Series series Aging and Society
    This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around aging, the life course, the roles of power, politics and partisanship, culture, economics, and communications. Critical perspectives are presented as definitions for reader understanding, with links to concepts ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture

    Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture examines how fans use social media to engage with television programming, characters, and narrative as well as how television uses social media to engage fan cultures. The contributors review the history and impact of social media and television programming; analyze specific programs and the impact of related social media interactions; and scrutinize the ... Read more

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    Translations and Considerations

    An anthology of Rilke's strongest poetry and prose for both aficionados and new readers.Here is a mini-anthology of poetry and prose for both aficionados and those readers discovering Rainer Maria Rilke for the first time. John J. L. Mood has assembled a collection of Rilke's strongest work, presenting commentary along with the selections. Mood links into an essay passages from letters that show ... Read more

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  • The Rilke Alphabet

    by Ulrich Baer ...
    Translated by Andrew Hamilton ...
    The renowned Rilke scholar brings the poet's work to life for modern readers through 26 essays, each devoted to a single word found in his writings.Ulrich Baer's The Rilke Alphabet explores the enduring power of one of the world's greatest poets, a visionary who saw that even the smallest overlooked word could unlock life's mysteries. With deep insight and love for Rilke's language, Baer examines ... Read more

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  • Rainer Maria Rilke's <I>The Book of Hours</I>

    A New Translation with Commentary

    Translated by Susan Ranson ...
    Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of 20th-century poetry. Yet his earlier verse is less known. The Bookof Hours, written in three bursts between 1899 and 1903, is Rilke's most formative work, covering a crucial period in his rapid ascent from fin-de-siècle epigone to distinctive modern ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Lyric Orientations

    Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community

    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    In Lyric Orientations**, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of our mortality.** She focuses on two German-speaking masters of lyric prose and poetry: Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) and Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). While Hölderlin and Rilke are stylistically very different, each ... Read more

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  • The Beginning of Terror

    A Psychological Study of Rainer Maria Rilke's Life and Work

    The insights here are of such depth, and contain such beauty in them, that time and again the reader must pause for breath. At last Rilke has met a critic whose insight, courage, and humanity are worthy of his life and work."-Leslie Epstein Director, Graduate Creative Writing Program, Boston University"[A] well-reasoned, fairly fascinating, and illuminating study which soundly and convincingly ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Nietzsche's Mirror

    The World as Will to Power

    Nietzsche's Mirror introduces the reader to one of the most central and pervasive themes in Friedrich Nietzsche's works-will to power. The book traces Nietzsche's use of the terms 'power,' 'will,' and 'will to power' as they are presented in both the works he authorized for publication and his literary remains, called the Nachlass. The author demonstrates that will to power as it is presented in ... Read more

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  • German Romanticism and Science

    The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter

    Series series Routledge Studies in Romanticism
    Situated at the intersection of literature and science, Holland's study draws upon a diverse corpus of literary and scientific texts which testify to a cultural fascination with procreation around 1800. Through readings which range from Goethe’s writing on metamorphosis to Novalis’s aphorisms and novels and Ritter’s Fragments from the Estate of a Young Physicist, Holland proposes that each author ... Read more

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