Hofmannsthal and Symbolism: Art and Life in the Work of a Modern Poet

by Thomas A. Kovach

This study attempts a revaluation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's position in relation to twentieth-century literary Modernism through an examination of the poet's complex relationship to French Symbolism. The actual impact of Symbolism on his poetic technique is demonstrated more clearly than has been done previously, while at the same time it is argued that there was no wholesale rejection of Symbolism during and after the Chandos crisis, as is generally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820402400
• ISBN13: 9780820402406
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 264 Pages