Author : Brian Willems
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441151478
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Book Synopsis Hopkins and Heidegger by : Brian Willems
Download or read book Hopkins and Heidegger written by Brian Willems and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hopkins and Heidegger is a new exploration of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poetics through the work of Martin Heidegger. More radically, Brian Willems argues that the work of Hopkins does no less than propose solutions to a number of hitherto unresolved questions regarding Heidegger's later writings, vitalizing the concepts of both writers beyond their local contexts. Willems examines a number of cross-sections between the poetry and thought of Hopkins and the philosophy of Heidegger. While neither writer ever directly addressed the other's work - Hopkins died the year Heidegger was born, 1899, and Heidegger never turns his thoughts on poetry to the Victorians - a number of similarities between the two have been noted but never fleshed out. Willems' readings of these cross-sections are centred on Hopkins' concepts of 'inscape' and 'instress' and around Heidegger's reading of both appropriation (Ereignis) and the fourfold (das Geviert). This study will be of interest to scholars and postgraduates in both Victorian literature and Continental philosophy.