Hölderlin and the Poetry of Tragedy : Readings in Sophocles, Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Benjamin.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Hölderlin's texts, and other abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Hölderlin's Nachtgesänge -- 1 Voyaging Out: Going Astray -- I BIOGRAPHY -- II THE CAESURA -- III 'ANDENKEN' -- 2 Tragedy and Trauerspiel: Madness and Mourning -- I TRAGEDY AND MADNESS -- II 'MNEMOSYNE' AND THE BACCHAE -- III 'MNEMOSYNE' AND AJAX -- 3 Hölderlin and Greece -- I HYPERION -- II HÖLDERLIN ON TRAGEDY -- III EMPEDOCLES: THIRD VERSION -- 4 Elegies, Odes, Hymns and Aphorisms -- I 'BROD UND WEIN -- II 'DICHTERBERUF -- III 'WIE WENN AM FEIERTAGE -- IV 'PATMOS -- V 'DER RHEIN' AND 'IN LIEBLICHER BLÄUE -- VI 'WENN ABER DIE HIMMLISCHEN -- 5 Tuché and Automaton: Hölderlin and Oedipus -- I HÖLDERLIN ON OEDIPUS -- II CHANCE ENCOUNTERS -- 6 Antigone -- I POST-HEGELIAN READINGS -- II HEIDEGGER AND TRANSLATION -- III LACAN: ANTIGONE -- IV HÖLDERLIN'S ANTIGONE -- V APPENDIX: OEDIPUS AT COLONUS -- 7 Nietzsche, Tragedy, Shakespeare -- I THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY -- II 'DIE TITANEN' AND 'DER EINZIGE -- III ON THE GENIUS -- 8 The Origin of German Tragic Drama -- Conclusion: 'Friedensfeier' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Holderlin's Works -- Index of Names and Subjects.

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