Vielleicht hier, um zu sagen: Bildung and Elegy in the Duineser Elegien, Du côté de chez Swann, and Misérable miracle

Heilker, Emily

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Vielleicht hier, um zu sagen: Bildung and Elegy in the Duineser Elegien, Du côté de chez Swann, and Misérable miracle

dc.contributor.advisor	Jim Hicks
dc.contributor.advisor	María Soledad Barbón
dc.contributor.advisor	Dianne Sears
dc.contributor.author	Heilker, Emily
dc.contributor.department	University of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.department	Comparative Literature
dc.date	2024-03-28T19:53:45.000
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-26T18:20:04Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-26T18:20:04Z
dc.date.submitted	September
dc.date.submitted	2016
dc.description.abstract	In the wake of the industrialization, urbanization, and global conflicts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europe was forced to call into question its Enlightenment faith. In particular, Bildung—as the cultural education of the individual that emerged out of the Enlightenment—lost its footing amidst experience’s new texture of trauma. This thesis will examine Rilke’s Duineser Elegien, Proust’s Du côté de chez Swann, and Michaux’s Misérable miracle as each work pertains to and reconceives of the intertwining of Bildung and elegy, as a literary form both underpinned by and unconvinced of Bildung. For them, I will argue, elegy served as a potential form for re-writing historical indifference and for preparing, through limit-experience and loss, linguistic antidotes for the elision of difference produced in history’s wake.
dc.description.degree	Master of Arts (M.A.)
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.7275/8603610
dc.identifier.orcid	N/A
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/33434
dc.relation.url	https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1425&context=masters_theses_2&unstamped=1
dc.source.status	published
dc.subject	elegy
dc.subject	Bildung
dc.subject	Rilke
dc.subject	Proust
dc.subject	Michaux
dc.subject	Comparative Literature
dc.subject	French and Francophone Literature
dc.subject	German Literature
dc.title	Vielleicht hier, um zu sagen: Bildung and Elegy in the Duineser Elegien, Du côté de chez Swann, and Misérable miracle
dc.type	openaccess
dc.type	article
dc.type	thesis
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