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Book SynopsisAddressed not only to specialists in German studies but also to readers interested in modern poetry, philosophy, and aesthetics, this volume is wide in scope but succinct in nature, aiming to assert the relevance of the work of Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) for thinking about history, culture, and language today.
Trade Review"[The Solid Letter] should bring new readers to Holderlin, and they will be helped by the best bibliography available of translations and criticism in English."—
MLRTable of ContentsSources and abbreviations; Introduction Aris Fioretos; Part I: 1. Measure for measure: Holderlin and the place of philosophy Peter Fenves; 2. The calculation of the poet Jean-Luc Nancy; 3. Poetry's courage Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; 4. 'Winke': divine topoi in Holderlin, Heidegger, Nancy Hent de Vries; 5. Holderlin's christ Jean-Francois Courtine; 6. Epistolary writing, fate, language: Holderlin's 'hyperion' Edgar Pankow; Part II: 7. Figures of duality: Holderlin and Greek tragedy Arnaud Villani; 8. Monstrous history: Heidegger reading Holderlin Andrzej Warminski; 9. Disowning contingences in Holderlin's 'empedocles' Stanley Corngold; 10. Reading the 'poetics' after the 'rermarks' Christopher Fynsk; 11. Ancient sports and modern transports: Holderlin's tragic bodies Rainer Naggele; 12. Color read: Holderlin and translation Aris Fioretos; Part III: 13. The philosophy of poetic form: Holderlin's theory of poetry and teh classical German elegy Cyrus Hamlin; 14. 'Brod und Wein': from the 'classical' final version to the later revision Bernhard Boschenstein; 15. Turns and echoes: two examples of Holderlin's poetics Arne Melberg; 16. Holderlin's marginalization of language Hans-Jost Frey; 17. The highest Thomas Schestag; Notes; Holderlin in English: a bibliography; Index of names.
