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Der Augenblick ist (nicht) Ewigkeit

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The moment is a recurring motif in European lyric poetry and can refer to such diverse concepts as the moment of falling in love, the ability to capture the right moment, or a shocking experience. The author examines the moment as a figure of thought and as a paradigm of modern consciousness by focusing on its presence in Friedrich Schlegel´s pre-romantic poetics of the fragment which develops Immanuel Kant´s aesthetics. Close readings of poems by the great European poets Giacomo Leopardi, Charles Baudelaire, and Rainer Maria Rilke extend the structural components of the moment as an aesthetic category. The poets´ aesthetic reflections are taken into consideration as well as eminent poems on the moment, such as L´infinito, · une passante or the Sonette an Orpheus.

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Herold, Milan
Dr. Milan Herold ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Vergleichende Romanistische Literaturwissenschaft / Mediävistik an der Universität Bonn.

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