Form in the Menschheitsdämmerung
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Form in the Menschheitsdämmerung

A Study of Prosodic Elements and Style in German Expressionist Poetry

  1. 270 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Form in the Menschheitsdämmerung

A Study of Prosodic Elements and Style in German Expressionist Poetry

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgment
  2. Reference Abbreviations
  3. Numerical References to Poems in the Menschheitsdämmerung
  4. I. The Critical View of Form in Expressionist Poetry
  5. 1. Introduction
  6. 2. “Form” as a Motif in the Menschheitsdämmerung
  7. 3. Critical Views on Form in Expressionism
  8. 4. Current Views on Form in Expressionism
  9. 5. The Problems of Expressionist Form
  10. 6. Critical Utility of such a Survey
  11. 7. State of Form Study in Expressionist Research
  12. II. Who or What is Expressionism?
  13. 1. The Problem of ‘Expressionism’
  14. 2. Attempts at Definition
  15. 3. The Menschheitsdämmerung as a Basis for Form Study
  16. 4. Conclusion
  17. III. The Use of Conventional Verse Elements in the Menschheitsdämmerung
  18. 1. Conventional Verse Elements
  19. 2. The Use of the Stanza in the Menschheitsdämmerung
  20. 3. The Use of Meter in the Menschheitsdämmerung
  21. 4. The Use of Rhyme, Assonance and Alliteration in the Menschheitsdämmerung
  22. IV. Interpretive Guidelines
  23. 1. The Use of Formal Elements in Expressionist Lyrics
  24. 2. Some Popular Verse Elements and Verse Forms
  25. 3. The Formal Principle of Unresolved Tension
  26. 4. Perspective: Post-Expressionist Formal Tendencies
  27. Bibliography
  28. Key to Poem Numbers and Index