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Der Rhein: Poetik des Stroms zwischen Elementarisierung und Domestikation

  • Alexander Honold
Published/Copyright: December 15, 2008
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From the journal Volume 126 Issue 2

Abstract

In the early 19th century, German poets start to conceive of the Rhine river in a significant new way. The water appears as a poetic resource and as a dynamic force of industrial production at the same time. In Hölderlin and Brentano, the Rhine is attributed a twofold quality, whereas the water seems to evoke individuality (kairos) and connectivity (cycle). In poetic terms, the river's domestication by means of hydro-engineering leads to an even more radical concept of elementary savageness, concluding in creations of a so-called new mythology like the famous ‘Loreley’.

Online erschienen: 2008-12-15
Erschienen im Druck: 2008-December
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