1991 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Functions and the Change of Apocalyptic Images in the Modern German Literature
Project/Area Number |
01510288
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Research Field |
独語・独文学
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Research Institution | Saitama University |
Principal Investigator |
ADACHI Tadao Saitama University Faculty of Liberal Art professor, 教養学部, 教授 (20011348)
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Project Period (FY) |
1989 – 1990
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Keywords | Apocalypse / Eschatology / Imagination / Death |
Research Abstract |
When we meet with a crisis, it sometimes happens that we, in order to soften a shock and to find out an orientation, instantaneously think of an image which is already given. The various images in the Book of Revelation always serve with their dramatic messages and vivid graphicness to stimulate the imaginations of poets and artists and to focus their questions. As one of such concrete examples we compare Paul Celan's poem 'Tenebrae' with the first verses of Holderlin's poem *Patmos' ; both begin with the key word of the Book of Revelation --'near'('for the hour of fulfillment is near'). In Holderlin's case he intends to confront the crisis of his time and to overcome it manfully, but in Celan's poem the image of "near" is converted into a "minus-image".
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Research Products
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