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“To Lie Beside a Leper”: Dirt, Disease, and Defilement in Rainer Maria Rilke’s "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge"
- Author(s):
- John Stephenson (see profile)
- Date:
- 2008
- Subject(s):
- German literature, Twentieth century, Civilization, Modern, Kristeva, Julia, 1941-
- Item Type:
- Essay
- Tag(s):
- 20th-century German literature, Modernity, Julia Kristeva
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/xx35-fz91
- Abstract:
- Rilke's engagement with the abject (Kristeva) through the writer of the "Notebooks" is examined in the context of modernity’s attempt to purify and order reality.
- Notes:
- Paper originally submitted to ENG S-197 Twentieth-Century Literature: Modernism and Postmodernism (Graduate credit), Harvard University Extension School, 5 July 2008. Minor revisions 30 May 2019.
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- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- Attribution
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