Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus
Philosophical and Critical Perspectives
Edited by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge and Luke Fischer
Author Information
Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge is Associate Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Her research focus is literature of the 18th to 20th century, with particular interest in lyric poetry, metrical theory, literature and philosophy, and the relationship between sound and text. Her first monograph, Lyric Orientations: Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community appeared with Cornell University Press in 2015; she has also published on Wittgenstein, Klopstock, Nietzsche, and the contemporary poet Durs Grünbein.
Luke Fischer is a philosopher, poet, and scholar of poetry. His books include The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the "New Poems" (Bloomsbury, 2015) and the poetry collections A Personal History of Vision (UWAP, 2017) and Paths of Flight (Black Pepper, 2013). He has authored and co-edited works on poetry, philosophy, art, and the environment, including the special section "Goethe and Environmentalism" in the Goethe Yearbook (2015). He is an honorary associate of the University of Sydney. More information can be found at his website: www.lukefischerauthor.com
Contributors:
David Brooks is Associate Professor (emeritus) in English at the University of Sydney.
Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge is Associate Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Luke Fischer (PhD, University of Sydney) is a philosopher, poet, and scholar of poetry.
Rick Anthony Furtak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College.
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei is Kurrelmeyer Professor of German at The Johns Hopkins University, having taught previously as Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University.
Christoph Jamme is Chair of Philosophy at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg.
Kathleen L. Komar is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.
James D. Reid holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Chicago and is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Metropolitan State University of Denver.
