Date of Award

1-1-2013

Language

English

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

College/School/Department

Department of English

Content Description

1 online resource (v, 95 pages)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Charles Shepherdson

Committee Members

Helen Elam, Pierre Joris

Keywords

Einstein, Maxwell, Poetry, Rilke, Science, Shelley, Literature and science

Subject Categories

Arts and Humanities

Abstract

This thesis will attempt to illustrate a connection between both the creative and trying experiences of certain natural scientists surrounding their discoveries and Rilke's vision of poetry. It will explore the implications of Rilke's figure of Orpheus, which has been characterized in part as a symbol for art's "search in which something essential is at stake" (Blanchot 215), on the poetic potential of those whose perception is grounded in the psychology of modern scientific discovery and theory; In other words, how a scientist comes to make the turn which takes them from "the work" to "the work of art".

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