Facetten polymorpher Lyrik

Beobachtungen zu Gedichten Apollinaires

By (author) Helmut Meter

Book cover: Facetten polymorpher Lyrik

Extent: 260 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Literary Studies

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(August 2021)

ISBN: 9783847113140

6.3 x 9.25 inches

Price: $69.00

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Die Betrachtung vernachlassigter Aspekte der Lyrik Apollinaires kann deren Eigenart verdeutlichen. Nicht das Nebeneinander von Traditionellem und Modernem zahlt, sondern ihr Ineinandergreifen.


Guillaume Apollinaire’s poetry is examined here from different angles. This does not correspond to the usual practice, which aims at the homogeneous image of an author who is only enthusiastic about modernity. Such one-sidedness is avoided in the twelve contributions. Moreover, they are devoted to hitherto neglected questions. Thus, comparative considerations, the reweighting of the Rhineland poems, the mixing of writing techniques and the transgression of autofictional content towards basic existential questions are striking facets of changing modes of observation. Consequently, a partly unusual physiognomy of the poet emerges, who in his poetic writing seems to stand less for the conflict between old and new than for the mutual interpenetration of both.

  • By (author) Helmut Meter