Citation: Segal, Naomi (2006) ‘O dieses ist das Tier, das es nicht gibt’: Rilke and unicorns. [Discussion or working paper] (Unpublished)
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Abstract
I’m going to start (and end, of course) with the untitled poem from the Sonette an Orpheus
that everyone cites, in often horrible translations, when they write about unicorns. Then I will
take you on a magical mystery tour of unicorn lore & images – and what I want to do with
this material is look at the peculiarly Rilkean angle on the trope: taking the traditional erotics
of virginity associated with this myth and giving it his distinctive spatial-temporal angle of the
intransitive. An unpublished paper by Professor Naomi Segal. For copyright reasons, images are not included.
Metadata
| Creators: | Segal, Naomi and |
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| Subjects: | Culture, Language & Literature |
| Keywords: | Rainer Maria Rilke, poetry, unicorns, lore, images |
| Divisions: | Institute of Modern Languages Research |
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| Comments and Suggestions: | Description/Provenance: Submitted by Zoe Holman (zoe.holman@sas.ac.uk) on 2006-12-05T10:25:28Z
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