The Author: Erika M. Nelson is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas, where she teaches German language, literature, and culture courses. Her current research explores German spa culture, film, and the literary influences of Liquid Sound.

• Contents: Reading and Re-Presenting Rilke in the Context of Fin-de-Siècle Literature – Orphic Identity and Poetic Invention – The Mythological Figure of Orpheus – The Orphic Mysteries – Orphic Voice and Sound in Poetry: The Modality of the Orphic Experience – Rainer Maria Rilke’s «Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes» – Hermes as Mediator to the Hermetic – Excavating Eurydice and Encountering Night and the Goddess Culture – Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge – Narcissus and Rilke’s «Wending» – Sonette an Orpheus (1922) – The Orphic Element in Sound and Rilke’s «Tempel im Gehör» – Rilke and the Modern Age: Orpheus as a (Post)Modernist Precursor – Wim Wenders’ Der Himmel über Berlin.

The Author: Erika M. Nelson is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas, where she teaches German language, literature, and culture courses. Her current research explores German spa culture, film, and the literary influences of Liquid Sound.

• Contents: Reading and Re-Presenting Rilke in the Context of Fin-de-Siècle Literature – Orphic Identity and Poetic Invention – The Mythological Figure of Orpheus – The Orphic Mysteries – Orphic Voice and Sound in Poetry: The Modality of the Orphic Experience – Rainer Maria Rilke’s «Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes» – Hermes as Mediator to the Hermetic – Excavating Eurydice and Encountering Night and the Goddess Culture – Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge – Narcissus and Rilke’s «Wending» – Sonette an Orpheus (1922) – The Orphic Element in Sound and Rilke’s «Tempel im Gehör» – Rilke and the Modern Age: Orpheus as a (Post)Modernist Precursor – Wim Wenders’ Der Himmel über Berlin.

The Author: Erika M. Nelson is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas, where she teaches German language, literature, and culture courses. Her current research explores German spa culture, film, and the literary influences of Liquid Sound.

• Contents: Reading and Re-Presenting Rilke in the Context of Fin-de-Siècle Literature – Orphic Identity and Poetic Invention – The Mythological Figure of Orpheus – The Orphic Mysteries – Orphic Voice and Sound in Poetry: The Modality of the Orphic Experience – Rainer Maria Rilke’s «Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes» – Hermes as Mediator to the Hermetic – Excavating Eurydice and Encountering Night and the Goddess Culture – Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge – Narcissus and Rilke’s «Wending» – Sonette an Orpheus (1922) – The Orphic Element in Sound and Rilke’s «Tempel im Gehör» – Rilke and the Modern Age: Orpheus as a (Post)Modernist Precursor – Wim Wenders’ Der Himmel über Berlin.