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Francesco Giusti
Reversion
Lyric Time(s) II
Is a history of the lyric even conceivable? What would a lyric temporality look like? With a focus on Rainer Maria Rilke’s decision not to translate, but rather to rewrite Dante’s Vita nova (1293–1295) in the first of his Duineser Elegien (1912), the essay deploys reversion (as turning back, return, coming around again), alongside re-citation, as a keyword that can unlock the transhistorical operations of the lyric as the re-enactment of selected gestures under different circumstances.
Keywords: lyric; gesture; transhistoricism; literary history; temporality; praise; chorality; community; re-citation; Dante; Rainer Maria Rilke
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Reversion
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Lyric Time(s) II
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Francesco Giusti
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Is a history of the lyric even conceivable? What would a lyric temporality look like? With a focus on Rainer Maria Rilke’s decision not to translate, but rather to rewrite Dante’s Vita nova (1293–1295) in the first of his Duineser Elegien (1912), the essay deploys reversion (as turning back, return, coming around again), alongside re-citation, as a keyword that can unlock the transhistorical operations of the lyric as the re-enactment of selected gestures under different circumstances.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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22 January 2019
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lyric
gesture
transhistoricism
literary history
temporality
praise
chorality
community
re-citation
Dante
Rainer Maria Rilke
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© by the author(s)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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151
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161
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Re-: An Errant Glossary, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 15 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2019), pp. 151–61
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Cite as:
Francesco Giusti, ‘Reversion: Lyric Time(s) II’, in Re-: An Errant Glossary, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 15 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2019), pp. 151-61 <https://doi.org/10.25620/ci-15_19>