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Article: Asthetischer Katholizismus: Stefan Georges Rituale der Literatur.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 1999
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Asthetischer Katholizismus. Stefan Georges Rituale der Literatur. By WOLFGANG BRAUNGART. (Communicatio: Studien zur europaischen Literatur- und Kunstgeschichte, 15) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 1997. xi + 382 pp. DM 112.
The ritual character of Stefan George's poetry, apparent from the many references to initiations, feasts, dances, processions, and sacrifices, has been exhaustively surveyed by Hansjurgen Linke in Das Kultische in der Dichtung Stefan Georges und seiner Schule (Munich: Kupper, 1960). While Linke stressed the pagan element in George's poetic ceremonies, Wolfgang Braungart's contribution is to explore in detail the specifically Catholic element in George's work, ...