„DER REDE INTERIEUR“. ZUR FRAGE DER INTRA - UND INTERTEXTUALITÄT IN OSWALD EGGERS POEM „HERDE DER REDE“

• Authors: Eleonore de FELIP

Title variants

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“DER REDE INTERIEUR”. QUESTIONING INTRA- AND INTERTEXTUALITY IN OSWALD EGGER’S LONG POEM “HERDE DER REDE”

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

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This essay analyses and reflects upon the numerous intra- and intertextual references in Oswald Egger’s long poem “Herde der Rede” (1999). The recourse to prior literary models in terms of surprising reversals of form and content, self-quotations as well as reversals of his own figures of speech are counted among Egger’s distinctive poetic strategies. Alert − like a widely open ear – to voices from different religious and poetical traditions, the text perceives, integrates and plays with different poetic registers and language worlds (such as the Song of Solomon, the ancient Corpus Hermeticum, Hesiod, Vergil, Hölderlin, Rilke …). “Herde der Rede” is a highly dialogic and polyphonic text (in the sense used by M. M. Bakhtin). Ultimately, quotations, repetitions and reversals become strategies of a poetic discourse which uses literary and religious traditions as subtexts for a metapoetic speech.

Keywords

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dialogism and polyphony (Bakhtin); quotation; repetition; reversal; metapoetry

• Publisher: Inter Litteras Research Centre, STEFAN CEL MARE University, Suceava, Romania; STEFAN CEL MARE Publishing House
• Journal: Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 3
• Pages: 57-82

Contributors

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Eleonore de FELIP

• University of Innsbruck, Austria