Brahms's Elegies: The Poetics of Loss in Nineteenth-Century German Culture
- Author: Grimes, Nicole
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Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Brahms's ascending circle: Hoelderlin and Schicksalslied
- 2. The ennoblement of mourning: Nanie and the death of beauty
- 3. A disembodied head for mythic justice: Gesang der Parzen
- 4. The last great cultural harvest: Nietzsche and the Vier ernste Gesange
- 5. The sense of an ending: music's return to the land of childhood
- Epilogue.