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Instructor: Dr. Arthur Turfa has an MA in German from UC-Irvine, where he took a Rilke seminar. He has studied, traveled, and lived in Germany. In his 25 year+ teaching career, he has taught German on university and secondary levels, and served in bi-lingual Lutheran parish settings. A published poet, he considers Rilke as one of his main influences. For English-speaking audiences, Rilke is perhaps the best-known German-language poet. Description: Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the best writers of the 20th Century, and perhaps in the US the best-known one who wrote in German. Austrian by birth, he truly was cosmopolitan in every sense of the word. This course will briefly review the Austria-Hungary and Europe in which he lived and then look at his poetic output. The New Poems, Life of Mary, Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus come into consideration, with attention being paid to the Dinggedicht (Thing Poem).
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471 University Parkway
Aiken, SC
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