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Sonnets of Catharina von Greiffenberg: Methods of Composition

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By Flora Kimmich
1975
Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
Series: UNC Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures
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This study presents interpretation and criticism of Catharina von Greiffenberg's Geistliche Sonnette (1662) with contrastive discussions of the process and structure of Gryphius' sonnets. The author uses an eclectic method to explore the sonnets as viable poetic constructs. She arrives at new conclusions on the nature of the two poets' gifts and on the peculiarities and possibilities of the sonnet as a short lyric form.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Half-Title Page

pp. i

Series Page

pp. ii

Title Page

pp. iii

Copyright

pp. iv-vi

Acknowledgments

pp. vii-viii

Contents

pp. ix

1. Of Problems and Method

pp. 1-8

2. Greiffenberg and the Sonnets

pp. 9-23

3. The Linear Poems

pp. 24-39

4. Repetition

pp. 40-55

5. Amassment and Assimilation

pp. 56-71

6. The Integrated Sonnets

pp. 72-96

7. Greiffenberg and Gryphius

pp. 97-119

8. Instead of a Conclusion

pp. 120-122

Bibliography

pp. 123-125

Index of Sonnets: Greiffenberg and Gryphius

pp. 126-129
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