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To Lie Beside a Leper": Dirt, Disease, and Defilement in Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: Rilke's engagement with the abject (Kristeva) through the writer of the "Notebooks" is examined in the context of modernity's attempt to purify and order reality.

Source: Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University)

DOI: 10.17613/3fzhz-syb93

Author: Stephenson, John

Language: English

Topic: Modernist Literature and Criticism

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2947469356

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