Symbolic Death and the Eccentric Sphere: “Remarks” on Hölderlin’s <i>Oedipus</i>
Insofar as the caesura of tragic temporality and the movement of “tragic <i>transport</i>’” are said to be shaped by a tendency toward the “eccentric sphere of the dead” in Friedrich Hölderlin’s “Remarks on Oedipus”, the privileged position of this sphere within Hölderlin’s “Remarks” sol...
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| description | Insofar as the caesura of tragic temporality and the movement of “tragic <i>transport</i>’” are said to be shaped by a tendency toward the “eccentric sphere of the dead” in Friedrich Hölderlin’s “Remarks on Oedipus”, the privileged position of this sphere within Hölderlin’s “Remarks” solicits further analysis of what this topos signifies within both Hölderlin’s poetological writings and his translation of <i>Oedipus the King</i>. How does the “eccentric sphere of the dead” relate to Hölderlin’s formal descriptions of the caesura that lends tragic succession a certain equilibrium, and what is implied in the qualification of this region as an “eccentric sphere”? How does the “eccentric sphere of the dead” register in the language of Sophocles’ tragedy? And conversely, what does the language of <i>Oedipus the King</i> indicate concerning the constitution and parameters of the “spheres” of the living and the dead? These are the questions that will be pursued in this essay, beginning with the broader resonance of the terms to which Hölderlin takes recourse in his “Remarks”, and proceeding to the ways in which the limits of life and death are articulated in Sophocles’ drama and Hölderlin’s translation. Those elaborations of the “eccentric sphere of the dead” will, in turn, allow for a reinterpretation of the more formal determinations of “tragic <i>transport</i>” that Hölderlin offers. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-da1359b2f20e4f8192d4139dd742cad32024-12-27T14:29:37ZengMDPI AGHumanities2076-07872024-12-0113617510.3390/h13060175Symbolic Death and the Eccentric Sphere: “Remarks” on Hölderlin’s <i>Oedipus</i>Kristina Mendicino0Department of German Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USAInsofar as the caesura of tragic temporality and the movement of “tragic <i>transport</i>’” are said to be shaped by a tendency toward the “eccentric sphere of the dead” in Friedrich Hölderlin’s “Remarks on Oedipus”, the privileged position of this sphere within Hölderlin’s “Remarks” solicits further analysis of what this topos signifies within both Hölderlin’s poetological writings and his translation of <i>Oedipus the King</i>. How does the “eccentric sphere of the dead” relate to Hölderlin’s formal descriptions of the caesura that lends tragic succession a certain equilibrium, and what is implied in the qualification of this region as an “eccentric sphere”? How does the “eccentric sphere of the dead” register in the language of Sophocles’ tragedy? And conversely, what does the language of <i>Oedipus the King</i> indicate concerning the constitution and parameters of the “spheres” of the living and the dead? These are the questions that will be pursued in this essay, beginning with the broader resonance of the terms to which Hölderlin takes recourse in his “Remarks”, and proceeding to the ways in which the limits of life and death are articulated in Sophocles’ drama and Hölderlin’s translation. Those elaborations of the “eccentric sphere of the dead” will, in turn, allow for a reinterpretation of the more formal determinations of “tragic <i>transport</i>” that Hölderlin offers.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/13/6/175Friedrich HölderlinSophoclesImmanuel Kanttragedytranslation |
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